 Public Affairs Officer, Special Operations Command, Pacific
Major Katherine P. Guttormsen, U.S. Army
US Army Major Kate Guttormsen will speak at the Tomah VA at 12:30 pm on Friday, March 4, 2011 in honor of Women’s History Month. The event will be held in the VA Chapel and is open to the public. Major Guttormsen was featured in the documentary, Lioness. Immediately following her presentation, the 60 minute film will be shown in BLDG 407/1722.
Lioness tells the story of a group of female support soldiers who were part of the first program in American history to send women into direct combat. These young women fought in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war and returned home as part of this country’s first generation of female combat veterans. Together the women's candid narratives describing their experiences in Iraq and scenes from their lives back home form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war from a female point of view.
Major Guttormsen graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1996 and received a regular Army commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Engineer Corps. Her tours of duty include the 2d Infantry Division, Camp Castle, Korea and Vilseck, Germany. She has been deployed to Albania and Kosovo.
Upon returning to the United States in 2000 she went to the Engineer Captain’s Career Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and completed her master’s degree in engineering management from the University of Missouri at Rolla. MAJ Guttormsen then joined the 1st Engineer Battalion at Fort Riley Kansas, where she served as the battalion assistant operations officer, the battalion operations officer and the Headquarters Company Commander. She deployed to Ramadi, Iraq as the Headquarters Company Commander from September 2003 until September 2004. After redeploying from Iraq, MAJ Guttormsen served as the brigade assistant operations officer for the 3d Brigade, 75th Division at Fort Riley Kansas.
In 2006, she was reassigned as a Army Public Affairs Officer. Shortly after her reassignment she moved to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California where she served as the chief of video for operations group until June 2008.
She arrived at SOCPAC in June of 2008 and currently serves as the SOCPAC PAO.
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