COL Kate Conkey

COL Conkey’s most recent assignments include battalion command of the Brigade Special Troops Battalion, Area Support Group – Kuwait and Professor of Military Science for the University of Hawai’i – Manoa Army Senior ROTC Program in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Prior to these leadership positions, COL Conkey served as the Military Police Operations Officer in a Corps Protection Cell as a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, I Corps at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), WA. Additional assignments at JBLM include Battalion Executive and Operations Officer for the 22d Military Police (MP) Battalion (Criminal Investigation Division (CID)), 6th MP Group (CID) headquartered at JBLM, WA. 

COL Conkey commissioned as a Military Police officer from Furman University’s Army SROTC Program in May 1999. She spent her first two years in the military as a platoon leader for the 142nd MP Company, 94th MP Battalion in Yongsan, Republic of Korea and the 571st MP Company, 504th MP Battalion at Fort Lewis, WA. She served as an assistant S3 with Task Force 504th MP Battalion in support of Kosovo 3B and for 1st MP Brigade (Provisional), Fort Lewis, WA. 

As a captain, she served as Fort Campbell’s Installation Provost Marshal before deploying to Mosul, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 04-06 where she assumed command of the 194th MP Company, 716th MP Battalion. 

Following her time in company command, COL Conkey instructed at the United States Military Academy at West Point in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership where she currently is assigned as an Academy Professor.