Colonel Allen F. Rossow was commissioned a Military Intelligence Officer upon graduation from Officer Candidate School Class 1-66, 14 January 1966. His first duty assignment was as Intelligence Officer, 705th Military Intelligence Detachment, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Chief, III Corps Order of Battle Section, Combined Intelligence Center, Vietnam, Tan Son Nhut, Airbase, Republic of Vietnam; Counterintelligence Agent, Defense Atomic Support Agency, Washington D.C.; Executive Officer, Special Security Detachment, ACSI, Department of the Army, II Field Force, Republic of Vietnam; Intelligence Officer, 2nd Battalion, 509th Infantry Airborne/ Mechanized, 8th Infantry Division, Mainz, Germany; Commander, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Mechanized, 8th Infantry Division, Mainz, Germany; Intelligence Officer, 1st Brigade, 8th Infantry Division; Intelligence Officer, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fulda, Germany; Chief, Collection Management, V Corps, Frankfurt, Germany; Assignment Officer, Military Personnel Center, Alexandria, Virginia; Commander, 102nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Hovey, Korea; Inspector General and Chief, Inspections Instructor, Inspector General Agency, Department of the Army, The Pentagon, Washington; Deputy J1, Assistant Chief of Staff G1, U.S. Forces Korea, Eighth U.S. Army, Seoul, Korea; Deputy Community Commander, Giessen Military Community, V Corps, Giessen, Germany; Garrison Commander, Fort Lee, Virginia. | At the time of his induction, Colonel Rossow was employed by MEVATEC, Inc. as a senior cost/management analyst, Huntsville, Alabama.