Eddie Waldrep, also appearing in source records as Edward E. Waldrep, Edward E. Waldrep Jr., and Edward Everett Waldrep Jr., is a clinical psychologist, U.S. Army veteran, UCCS psychology lecturer profile subject, and Academy District 20 school-board public actor. His academic source layer includes a 2011 Kent State master's thesis on the Meaning Self-Efficacy Scale and a 2015 Kent State dissertation on coping self-efficacy after traumatic injury.
The current biography-gap source cluster supports a pre-academic sequence from Phoenix high school, construction work, U.S. Army infantry service, Pikes Peak Community College, UCCS, and Kent State. The campaign and public-bio layer further describes him as an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, Purple Heart recipient, Combat Infantryman Badge recipient, Infantry Squad Leader, and VA PTSD clinical psychologist, but official military-award and unit records have not been captured. A military-verification follow-up added iVoterGuide support for United States Army, Staff Sergeant, 1998-2004 and official NARA / NPRC context explaining why a reported 2004 separation is still inside the non-archival, access-restricted OMPF window.
A best-evidence follow-up did not find a public DD-214, ERB, award order, CIB / Purple Heart order, NPRC / HRC response, or Waldrep-specific unit record. It did narrow the best public archive lane to Fort Carson Mountaineer plus 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment / Task Force Rifles, explicitly as a candidate lead rather than a unit claim.
A Mountaineer recovery follow-up partially repaired truncated issue captures and searched the recoverable text. It found no Waldrep / Waldrop, Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman, CIB, or Task Force Rifles hit in that partial text, while recovering September 2004 3d ACR / Brave Rifles Fort Carson training and return-to-Iraq context. That lowers the likelihood of an easy hit in the currently recoverable pages but does not substitute for complete issue PDFs.
A VA FOIA document package now preserved separately from the Colorado Times Recorder article contains multiple Reports of Contact and related emails concerning Waldrep's VA workplace comments around Race-Based Stress Trauma and Empowerment, DEI / racial-caucus material, and workplace communication. It also contains a November 2, 2023 Eastern Colorado Health Care System written counseling letter concerning an October 2023 PCT Teams meeting comment. This supports a VA workplace-record layer, but the counseling letter itself says it was not a disciplinary action; this page should not convert it into DORA discipline, VA disciplinary action, clinical misconduct, or patient-harm claims.
1991-1995, from a browser-inspected Kent-era CV mirror.March 1998 - December 2004, PMOS 11B, highest rank Staff Sergeant / E-6, from the browser-inspected CV mirror; iVoterGuide separately lists United States Army, Staff Sergeant, 1998-2004.2004-2005; UCCS B.A. 2008; Kent State M.A. 2011; Kent State PhD 2015; Alliant MSCP / psychopharmacology credential remains candidate-profile-supported but not independently verified in the biography-gap pass.2023 written counseling letter; it does not support professional-board discipline or a VA disciplinary-action finding on the current record.Eddie Waldrep biography-gap source cluster, 1991-2025 is the current source-control page for the pre-academic and military-to-psychology bridge. Its main finding is that the apparent biography gap is not empty: the inspected source sequence runs from Phoenix high school to Army infantry service, then almost immediately into PPCC / UCCS and psychology research work before Kent State.
The thesis and dissertation source summaries provide the direct academic identity trail from UCCS B.A. 2008 to Kent State M.A. 2011 and PhD 2015. The public-statements summary provides the later campaign / media / advocacy corpus. The FAIR / STARRS deep-discovery summary should be used only for role-listing, publication, event, podcast, and reported-relationship mechanisms.
| Source | Target | Mechanism | Flow | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waldrep | U.S. Army | enlisted infantry service | military experience / public legitimacy | direct CV evidence and public-profile reinforcement; official verification open | Eddie Waldrep biography-gap source cluster, 1991-2025 |
| Waldrep | UCCS | undergraduate education, research assistant, later lecturer profile | education / academic legitimacy | direct evidence for degree and profile; CV evidence for research assistant | biography-gap summary; OhioLINK source notes; Colorado PROFILES capture |
| Waldrep | Kent State University | M.A. thesis and PhD dissertation | academic credential / psychology research | direct evidence | Edward E. Waldrep 2011 thesis: Meaning Self-Efficacy Scale; Edward E. Waldrep 2015 dissertation: coping self-efficacy and traumatic injury |
| Waldrep | VA PTSD Clinical Team | clinical role / public biography | professional legitimacy / veteran mental-health service | public-bio and campaign evidence; exact employment history open | biography-gap summary |
| VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System | Waldrep | Reports of Contact and written counseling | workplace-record evidence / professional-judgment context | direct FOIA document evidence for records and counseling; not professional-board discipline or VA disciplinary action | source-note |
| FAIR Colorado | Waldrep | chapter role listing / event promotion | public attention / professional advocacy | direct evidence for listing, not control or sponsorship | Eddie Waldrep FAIR / STARRS / YouTube and podcast deep-discovery source cluster |
| STARRS / Critical Therapy Antidote | Waldrep | publication / republication / article-summary surfaces | professional-advocacy attention | direct evidence for publication surfaces; reported relationship for blocked sources | FAIR / STARRS source summary |
| Waldrep | Academy District 20 | school-board campaign and later public board context | political authority / policy argument | direct campaign and public-statement evidence | Eddie Waldrep 2023-2026 public statements source cluster |
professor unless a source supports that title. The current profile source supports Lecturer.2004-2005 issue PDFs or another unit archive produce a Waldrep-specific hit for award ceremony, wounded-in-action, redeployment, CIB / Purple Heart, or 3d ACR / Task Force Rifles context?personal.kent.edu CV page or a Wayback capture be recovered to replace the Studylib / access-state capture?Lecturer?Suicide to Hope Peer-Based Intervention Study that clarify the early bridge between military service and psychology?2023 written counseling preserved in the current package?