U.S. Army Major Rob Krieg, a former student at Bancroft-Rosalie High School, was recently selected for early promotion to Lieutenant Colonel below-the-zone, which is limited to less than the top ten percent of officers considered for promotion. Rob attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, following in the footsteps of his brother, Mike Krieg, who graduated from Bancroft-Rosalie in 1987 and West Point in 1991.
After graduating from West Point in 1994 with a degree in Environmental Engineering, he was commissioned as a Field Artillery Officer. Rob has served in a variety of command and staff positions in the U.S. Army while serving at Fort Hood, TX, Fort Sill, OK, Germany, and Iraq. While serving in Iraq, Rob served as the Multinational Corps-Iraq Joint Fires Liaison to the Multinational Force-Iraq where he assisted in synchronizing economic, governance, security, and reconciliation efforts. Rob is currently a student at Fort Leavenworth, KS where he is attending Command and General Staff College.
Rob’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, four Meritorious Service Medals, one Joint Service Commendation Medal, four Army Commendation Medals, the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, and the Iraq Campaign Medal with Bronze Star. Rob is married to the former Lauren Glover of Fort Worth, TX, who is the senior nurse practitioner for Comanche County Memorial Medical Group’s Pediatrics Clinic. They have two boys, William and Matthew, and a daughter, Katelin. Rob is the son of the late Rex and Andrea Krieg.
