Because he already held an associate degree from Tallahassee Community College, he was assigned the rank of Specialist.
In 2002, John Crawford was recently married and close to earning a degree in Anthropology from Florida State University.
Crawford describes his experiences as having created a "new level of accountability,"[2] and remarked that when he told his fellow soldiers he was writing a memoir about his experience, all of them "wanted to know if I was writing a 'super liberal' book.
"[2] Crawford later plans to travel to Afghanistan to write an account of the current War on Terror in the country from a civilian perspective.
Crawford has made appearances on National Public Radio[3] as well as C-SPAN[4] and The Daily Show.