Chaplain (Colonel) Robert B. Allman III (Rob) was born in Statesboro, Georgia. After several years traveling with his Air Force family, he settled in Central Florida where he graduated from Lake Howell High School in Winter Park. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communication and Theater with a minor in English studies from Samford University, a Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School, Post-graduate coursework at Covenant Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from Erskine Theological Seminary. He is ordained as a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America and endorsed as an Army chaplain by Presbyterian and Reformed Commission on Chaplains and Military Personnel.

Chaplain Allman’s military education includes the U.S. Army Chaplain Officer Basic Course, the Chaplain Captains Career Course (C4), Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), four units with an awarding of the 7R ASI, Army Basic Instructor Course (5K), the Military History Instructor Course, the Brigade Chaplain Functional Area Qualification Course, the Initial Strategic Religious Support Leaders Course and Intermediate Level Education (both common core and advanced operations course) as a resident student at the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Chaplain Allman first entered reserve duty as a chaplain candidate in April 1996 during which time he completed the Chaplain Officer Basic Course and later served summer internships at Fort Rucker and Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. He entered active duty in April 2001 after serving in the banking business in St. Louis, Missouri and as pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Russellville, Alabama. He has served with the 71st Transportation Battalion at Fort Eustis, Virginia as a chaplain to AIT, OBC, WOBC, and International Students; 10th Transportation Battalion (Waterborne) where he was attached for eight months as their battalion chaplain; Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas for a year-long CPE residency; Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, Washington as the Troop Command Chaplain and Chaplain Clinician caring for Wounded Warriors and their Families; the Brigade Chaplain for the 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, Fort Gordon, Georgia; the Regimental Chaplain for the Second Cavalry Regiment (Stryker BCT), Rose Barracks, Germany; Small Group Leader/Instructor for C4, and Chief, Professional Military Education, US Army Chaplain Center and School, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Chaplain Allman recently was assigned to the Pentagon in the Office of the Chief of Chaplains as Communications Chief and Executive Speechwriter to the Army’s 24th Chief of Chaplains.

He has deployed twice: once in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom serving as a battalion chaplain in Kuwait and Iraq and completed a nine-month combat tour to RC(S), Afghanistan in support of ISAF where he served as the Regimental Chaplain for a combined task force consisting of nine religious support teams.

Chaplain Allman’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (5OLC), Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal (2OLC), Army Superior Unit Award, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Army Overseas Service Ribbon (2) and the NATO Medal (ISAF). He is also authorized to wear the Army Staff Identification Badge.

Chaplain Allman resides in Burke, Virginia and is married to the former Lori Michelle Venable, a registered nurse, of Irving, Texas. They have one daughter, Emma Kate, who is seventeen and a junior in high school.