Col. Brian P. Schoellhorn
Colonel Brian Schoellhorn enlisted in the Army in 1990 as a Field Artillery Forward Observer and served in Desert Storm and in 5-41 FA in Schweinfurt, Germany. He commissioned through the University of Illinois ROTC program as an Armor Officer in 1998 and has served in various command and staff positons.
Assignments include 1-77 AR in Schweinfurt, Germany, 2-72 AR in Korea, 1-8 IN, 3/4 ABCT, and 4ID Staff at Fort Carson, CO with deployments to Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He commanded 1-24 IN at Fort Wainwright, AK from 2016-2018 and served as the Brigade Senior Trainer (Bronco 07) at the National Training Center from 2018-2019. Colonel Schoellhorn’s last operational assignment was as the G3, 3ID at Fort Stewart, GA from 2019-2020.
He is a graduate of the Armor Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Command and General Staff College, the National Security Programme, Canadian Forces College and holds a Bachelor and Master of Arts in History from the Universities of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and Wisconsin-Madison respectively.
Colonel Schoellhorn is married to Kristen and has a daughter Sylvia.