Specialist Lisa JoDean Crawford serves as the editor for the Prairie Soldier, the joint newspaper of the Nebraska Air and Army National Guard. She was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and moved multiple times during her youth, until her father officially retired from the Army and settled down in LaVista, Nebraska. She is a 2005 graduate of Papillion-LaVista High School, Papillion, Nebraska. Crawford earned her bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in journalism, a minor in literature and a minor in French from Missouri Western State University in 2010. While earning her degree, she served
Specialist Lisa JoDean Crawford serves as the editor for the Prairie Soldier, the joint newspaper of the Nebraska Air and Army National Guard. She was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and moved multiple times during her youth, until her father officially retired from the Army and settled down in LaVista, Nebraska. She is a 2005 graduate of Papillion-LaVista High School, Papillion, Nebraska. Crawford earned her bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in journalism, a minor in literature and a minor in French from Missouri Western State University in 2010. While earning her degree, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the university’s newspaper The Griffon News. After graduation, she was hired as a general assignment reporter for the St. Joseph News-Press in St. Joseph, Missouri. A year later she moved back to Nebraska to be closer to family where she worked the next five years as a Marketing Communications Specialist for Securities America Inc., an independent broker-dealer. Crawford enlisted in the Nebraska Army National Guard in October 2014 at age 27, and completed basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the summer of 2015. She completed her advanced individual training at the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Maryland, as the course’s distinguished honor graduate. While completing AIT, she served as a platoon guide and a student officer at the Army’s student detachment. As a traditional Guard Soldier, Crawford is currently assigned as a broadcast communications specialist in the Nebraska Army National Guard’s 111th Public Affairs Detachment in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her work has been published in the Nebraska National Guard’s newspaper The Prairie Soldier and the National Guard, the official publication of the National Guard Association of the United States. Crawford served active duty state orders starting July 2016 working as a photojournalist for the Nebraska National Guard Public Affairs Office, before being officially hired
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