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Quick Facts

Assigned to INSCOM as part of worldwide MI reorganization in Feb, 1977

Relocated to Augsburg Germany, redesignated 66th  MI Brigade in Oct 16, 1992

Redesignated 66th MI Group  (Provisional) July 16, 1995

The 66th departs Augsburg, Germany after 53 years of    operations in June 20, 1998

Relocated to the Dagger Complex, Darmstadt, Germany in October 8, 1998

Redesignated as 66th MI Group Oct 16, 2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the 66th MI Brigade

Command Group

Commander

Colonel Christina A. Bembenek graduated from West Point in 2000 with a degree in international relations and a concentration in the Chinese language. She has served in various intelligence positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels, including multiple deployments to Kosovo and Iraq.

Colonel Bembenek served as the Assistant S-2 for 2nd Brigade, 101st Infantry Division; commanded A/319th, 525 Battlefield Surveillance Brigade; and served as the Army Technical Control and Analysis Element Chief and Brigade S-3 in the 704th Military Intelligence Brigade at Fort Meade, Maryland. At United States Central Command, she served as the intelligence officer on the Commander’s Action Group.

Colonel Bembenek is also an Olmsted scholar; she completed her studies (in Arabic) at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, in a master’s program in Public Law and Political Science. Her most recent operational assignment was as the 82nd Airborne Division G-2, where she provided critical intelligence to support the first deployment of the Immediate Response Force in over 30 years, as well as responded to various crises both in the United States and abroad. Following that assignment, she completed her Army War College fellowship at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace at Columbia University in New York City in 2021. She then served as the first Commandant of the Military Intelligence School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

Colonel Bembenek has published articles in War on the Rocks, Center for New American Security, Small Wars Journal, and the Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin.

Colonel Bembenek is married to Navy Commander (Retired) Bob Steltenpohl, a former SH-60 pilot and Middle East Foreign Area Office.


Command Sergeant Major

Command Command Sergeant Major Ken M. Lima joined the Florida Army National Guard as a military police officer in 1998. After completing basic training and Military Police Advanced Individual Training at Fort McClellan, he served two years in the National Guard. He joined the U.S. Army in 2000 as an all source intelligence analyst at Fort Huachuca.

CSM Lima’s duties and assignments include Military Policeman Florida Army National Guard; Intelligence Analyst and Senior Intelligence Sergeant, Fort Carson; Iraqi Army Military Transition Team Member, Iraq; Joint Analysis NCOIC and Counter Terrorism Sergeant, MacDill Air Force Base; Senior Drill Sergeant and Basic Training Company 1SG, Fort Sill; Counter Intelligence Company 1SG, HHC/Brigade 1SG, and 513th Military Intelligence Brigade Operations SGM, Fort Gordon; 101st Airborne Division (AASLT) G-2 Sergeant Major, Fort Campbell; and 305th Military Intelligence Battalion Command Sergeant Major, Fort Huachuca. His combat deployments include Operation IRAQI FREEDOM 03-04, 05-06, 07-09, and 10-11.

His military and civilian education include the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy – Class 69 (Commandant’s List); Senior, Advanced, and Basic Leaders Courses (Commandant’s Lists), and Drill Sergeant School (Distinguished Honor Graduate). CSM Lima holds an Associate of Applied Science in Intelligence Operations from Cochise College, a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Excelsior College, and is pursuing a Master in Leadership Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso.

CSM Lima is married with children.