Colonel Stephen Polacek

Deputy Joint Base Commander at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

Colonel Stephen Polacek is the Deputy Joint Base Commander at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. He is responsible for facilitating Army-Air Force relationships and helps lead over 5,500 military and civilian personnel. He commissioned through New Mexico Military Institute in 1999 into the Army Reserves and after completing his bachelor’s at Oregon State University, he joined the Active Duty Army and later  earned a master’s degree. He is a logistics officer and his previous assignments have been in Hawaii, Germany, Washington, Kentucky, and Illinois with three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.