Colonel Rose A. Walker was commissioned an Adjutant General Officer upon graduation from Officer Candidate School Class 3-78, 8 August 1978. Her first duty assignment was as OIC PAC/Adjutant , 3d Battalion, 1st Infantry Training Brigade, Fort Benning, Georgia. | Her subsequent duty assignments include: Chief, Redeployment Center, U.S. Army Infantry Center, Fort Benning; Chief, Enlisted Career Division, Adjutant General PSC, Fort Benning, Georgia; Chief, Student Personnel, COMPACT, Fort Benning, Georgia; Assistant Chief, OE Officer, 21st Support Command, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Assistant Secretary General Staff, 21st Support Command, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Company Commander, 69th Per Svc Co, 90th P&A Battalion, Germany; Adjutant General Assignment Officer, OPMD, Department of the Army Personnel Command, Alexandria, Virginia; Officer Distribution Officer, OPMD, Department of the Army Personnel Command, Alexandria, Virginia; Enlisted Personnel Distribution Officer, EPMD, Department of the Army  Personnel Command, Alexandria, Virginia; Deputy G1/Acting G1, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Saudi Arabia, Fort Riley, Kansas; Secretary General Staff, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas; Assistant Executive Officer to Chief of Staff Army, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.; Battalion Commander, 24th Personnel Services Battalion, Fort Stewart, Georgia; Military Assistant for Personnel, Office of the Secretary of the Army, Washington, D.C.; Brigade Commander, 1st Personnel Command, U.S. Army Europe & Seventh Army, Schwetzingen, Germany.