Edward Ledford

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Ledford currently serves as Chief, Key Leader Engagements, for the core team designated to grow into the new International Security Assistance Force Joint Command Headquarters (IJC) under ISAF HQ. He is a 1987 Distinguished Military Graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, where he received his commission in Army Aviation and earned a BA in English, and a 1995 graduate of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, where he earned his MA, also in English. Between Aviation-related assignments, Ledford has served as Chief, Key Leader Engagements with 82d Airborne Division and CJTF-82 from 2006-2008, as an Instructor and Assistant Professor of English at the United States Military Academy, and as a speechwriter in the Pentagon. His assignments have included duty in Honduras, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Korea, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Afghanistan.