Colonel Sasha J. Kuhlow graduated from the Pennsylvania State University Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program in 2002. As a Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Officer, her first duty station was 1st Radio Battalion, Marine Forces Pacific. She deployed throughout the Pacific with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and later served as a platoon commander in Iraq. She completed two additional tours to Iraq while participating in the Junior Officer Cryptologic Career Program, gaining exposure to the national Intelligence community. From 2009 to 2012, she served as a company commander at 2d Radio Battalion and deployed to Afghanistan. She was then selected to become a Middle East/North Africa Foreign Area Officer. She conducted her training at the United States Embassy in Amman, Jordan, and gained familiarity with the broader diplomatic community. She returned to 2d Radio Battalion as the operations officer in 2016. Colonel Kuhlow then transferred to be the Intelligence Director (AC/S G-2) for Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade in Manama, Bahrain.
She was selected for command and served as the 3d Radio Battalion Commanding Officer in Hawaii, from 2019 to 2021. She graduated from the National War College in 2022 and was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) where she served in the Directorate for Defense Intelligence/Warfighter Support in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and later served as an analyst with the Campaign Decision Support Team in OSD. She began her most recent billet as the Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 (Intelligence) at II Marine Expeditionary Force in 2024 and served as a Joint Task Force J-2.
Colonel Kuhlow holds a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the National War College, a Master of Arts in Security Studies for the Middle East, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa from the Naval Postgraduate School, a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics from the Pennsylvania State University, and an Associate of Arts Degree in Arabic from the Defense Foreign Language Institute. She is also a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI graduate.