Major General Anslow was born on 16 February 1967 in Troy, New York. She was a trailblazer for women throughout her military career, often

accomplishing many firsts. In 1989, she was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers upon graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point, the 10th class graduating women. Among the first 800 women to graduate in history. First individual in her class from West Point to be promoted to General Officer and was the first female promoted to general officer in the Arkansas Army National Guard. In 1993, MG Anslow transitioned to the Arkansas Army National Guard (ARARNG) and began her diverse military and civilian engineer career paths serving 29 years as a citizen Soldier, with the US Army Corps of Engineers, in the male dominated engineer career field. Highlighting her career was commanding and deploying the 875th Engineer (Corps) (Mechanized) Battalion during Operation Iraqi Freedom (06-08). The Battalion transitioned to a route clearance mission and integrated multi-state national guard, reserve and active duties subordinate units into the command. The Battalion provided Corps level route clearance and served as the only Engineer Battalion to the 3rd Infantry Division during the Surge Operations in 2007. The Battalion build patrol bases and cleared over 1500 IEDs saving thousands of lives. The unit also advanced many IED defeat techniques and procedures.