Col. Steven Bartley, Commander, U.S. Army Garrison Fort Leonard Wood
Col. Steven Bartley is a native of Fredonia, New York, and enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Corrections Specialist in 1997. He was commissioned as a Signal Officer from ROTC at The State University of New York at Brockport in 2002, before completing a branch transfer and returning to the Military Police Corps in 2003.
His most recent assignment was the Chief of Operations and Plans, Office of the Provost Marshal General, Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA).
His previous assignments include Commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea; Politico-Military Planner, Joint Staff, J5/Transregional Threats Coordination Cell (T2C2), and a Senior Operations Officer, Army G3/5/7 at the Pentagon; S3, 18th Military Police Brigade, deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan; Commander, 977th Military Police Company, deployed to Kirkuk, Iraq; Platoon Leader, 410th Military Police Company, deployed to Baghdad, Iraq; and Platoon Leader, 1/105th Military Police Company, deployed to New York City after 9/11.
Col. Bartley is a graduate of the Signal Officer Basic Course; Military Police Captain’s Career Course; Army Senior Service College; National Defense University’s Joint and Combined Warfighting School; Navy Maritime Advanced Warfighting School; and Naval Command and Staff College. Bartley earned a Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement Administration from Upper Iowa University; a Master of Public Administration from the State University of New York at Brockport; and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
He was also a U.S. Army War College fellow at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School Institute for Security Policy and Law.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with two oak leaf clusters; the Defense Meritorious Service Medal; the Meritorious Service Medal with a silver oak leaf cluster; the Army Commendation Medal with a silver oak leaf cluster; the Army Achievement Medal; the Army Good Conduct Medal; the National Defense Service Medal with one bronze star); the Afghanistan Campaign Medal; the Iraq Campaign Medal with two campaign stars; the Global War on Terror Expeditionary Medal; the Global War on Terror Service Medal; the Korea Defense Service Medal; the NATO Medal (Afghanistan); the Army Service Ribbon; the Overseas Service Ribbon (fifth award); the German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency (in gold); the Army Staff Badge; the Joint Staff Badge; and the Combat Action Badge.