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David Poe serves as a public affairs specialist with the Fort Bliss Garrison command and also serves as the assistant editor of the Fort Bliss Bugle, the installation’s command newspaper. He is an award-winning, weekly content producer that enjoys people-driven imagery and products.
Prior to coming back to Fort Bliss for his second stint in the Borderland in late 2017, Poe served as a PA specialist with the 71st Flying Training Wing at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, a joint specialized undergraduate pilot training unit. There he spurred a golden age of new media concepts for the base, including live casting across the base’s social media channels — an experimental approach for a Department of Defense element at the time. The Air Education and Training Command recognized Poe with several news product awards and represented the Air Force command at the DOD level in many categories. Locally his products promoted command messages for Vance’s pilot training audience, as well as surrounding northwest Oklahoma communities and beyond.
Before heading west to Oklahoma, during a hiatus from federal service, Poe received specialized digital photography training at the New England Institute of Art in Boston, Massachusetts. There he was able to focus on the technical nuances of digital photography and learn from instructors that provided a departure from his news background, offering time for particulars like color analysis, digital printing experience and documentary photography opportunities in a classroom setting.
His departure into the private sector followed a promotion when he joined the editorial staff of the Northwest Guardian, the official publication of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, in 2011.
During his time at JBLM, Poe managed a team of contract photojournalists from the Tacoma (Washington) News-Tribune, whose abilities were so impressive, they inspired Poe to become a better photojournalist, which is what encouraged him to seek more training.
Poe was lucky enough to cut his teeth on news writing and news photography as a junior member of the Fort Bliss Monitor staff, which was the previous name of his current publication.
Prior to his entry into civilian service, as well as some news writing coursework at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Poe served as an enlisted Navy journalist, and later, after the rating conversion, a Mass Communication Specialist, with commands at sea and on shore.
His crisis communication experience includes in theater operations during operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, as well as humanitarian responses following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami, among other events.
He left college and enlisted in the Navy after the attacks on America on Sept. 11, 2001, and earned several expeditionary decorations, as well as a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal at the conclusion of his service in 2008.
Poe hails from Newton, Massachusetts, and is a third-generation Navy veteran. His older brother Christopher is a combat arms senior noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve. He has a bachelor’s in communications from New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is an avid photographer and rugby player.
| Date Taken: | 12.28.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 12.28.2018 12:51 |
| Story ID: | 305636 |
| Location: | FORT BLISS, TEXAS, US |
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