Berks veteran profile: Liz Graybill

Name: Liz Graybill

Age: 58

Resides: West Lawn

Military service: Army for 23 years.

She enlisted when she was 18 in 1984 and retired as a sergeant first class in 2007.

She worked as a paralegal stationed at bases in the U.S. and Germany and was deployed to Saudi Arabia in support of Desert Shield/Storm for six months. She was also deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina twice for one year each and deployed to Iraq twice for one year each.

In her job as a paralegal she worked in criminal law, trial defense, claims, legal assistance and magistrate court from battalion level to brigade level for the Staff Judge Advocate offices.

She is air-assault qualified. Her highest medal received was the Bronze Star from her first deployment to Iraq.

Now: She works part time with the VFW as a veteran service officer and is director and founder of the nonprofit Veterans Making A Difference in Reading, managing its Paul R. Gordon Veteran Social Center.

She wrote a book in 2017 titled “Eat Healthy, Be Healthy: It Is That Simple.”

She has associate degrees in general studies and police science law enforcement and a bachelor’s degree in sociology. She is working toward her master’s degree in counseling.

Source: Berkshire mont