Col Frietze was commissioned in 1991, and has served in all elements of the MAGTF, with command and staff assignments at all levels. He is currently serving as the Commanding Officer Headquarters Regiment, 1st Marine Logistics Group.
Following the completing of the Basic School and the Combat Engineer Officer’s Course he was assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron-374 as Platoon Commander, Commanding Officer Engineer Support Division, and Operations Officer. Transferring to Marine Wing Support Group-37 in 1994, he served as Commanding Officer - PSD, Plans and Assistant Operations Officer. In 1996, he was assigned as the Inspector-Instructor, C Co, 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division.
From 1999 to 2001, he served as the Commanding Officer Engineer Support Company and then the Operations Officer at 9th Engineer Support Battalion. In 2001, he was reassigned to the Facilities Engineer, Marine Corp Base Japan.
While attending Marine Corps Command & Staff College in 2002; he deployed midterm to OIF I as the Engineer Plans Officer, with the Coalition Force Land Component Command. Upon return he was assigned to JTF-North as the USMC Engineer Plans Officer.
In 2006, he served as the Executive Officer for Combat Logistics Battalion-22, 2d MLG. During this assignment, he deployed to CJTF Horn of Africa as the Civil Military Operations Plans Officer where he served as the Mission Commander for both Unity Night (Ethiopia), Unity Eclipse (Kenya) and later as the Military Transition Team Commander to the Ugandan Peoples Defense Force (African Union Mission to Somalia) to relieve Ethiopian forces in Somalia. Returning to 2d MLG in 2007, he served as the G3, Operations Officer.
In 2008, he was assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force as the G4, Engineer Officer where he served as the G7 for OIF FY09, prior to deploying he was command selected, reassigned to 2d Marine Expeditionary Brigade as the G7 Engineer and supported the deployment to Afghanistan for OEF 9.1.
In May 2009, he commanded 7th Engineer Support Battalion deploying the battalion into the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in support of combat operation OEF 9.2/10.1. Post command he served as the Executive Officer, Combat Logistic Regiment-15. Post Top Level School, he was assigned to HQMC I&L LP as the Branch Head for Engineering and EOD. His last assignment was as the G3 AC/S, 1st MLG.
Col Frietze is a graduate of New Mexico State University, Amphibious War School (nonresident) the U.S. Army Engineer Officers Advanced Course, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Joint Forces Staff College, Defense Language Institute (Spanish), the Argentine Defense War College (TLS) and is a Regional Area Officer for South America.
He is married to the former Katherine M. Holmes; they have four children, Kaitlyn, Victoria, Jacob, and Ethan.