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Air National Guard Airman Megan Weitzel graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
She completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
She also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Weitzel is the daughter of Gary and Deborah Weitzel of Klamath Falls and a 2009 graduate of Klamath Union High School.
Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Diana Jiminez graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
She completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
She also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Jiminez is the daughter of Kay Moyette of Klamath Falls, a 2001 graduate of Henley High School, and received a bachelor’s degree in 2007 from Oregon Institute of Technology.
Marine Corps Pfc. Jordan Long, the daughter of Susan Morton of Klamath Falls and Richard Long, Jr. of Klamath Falls, recently completed the Marine Corps Basic Enlisted Supply Course.
During the course with Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools Training Command, Camp Lejeune, N.C., she learned to use supply publications and catalogs, general accounting, and the basics of naval correspondence.
Long is a 2009 graduate of Klamath Union High School and joined the Marine Corps in July 2009.
Air Force Airman 1st Class Stefan Holdaway graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
He completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
He also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Holdaway is the son of Jerri Holdaway of Klamath Falls and received an associate degree in 2009 from Thomas Nelson Community College in Williamsburg, Va.
Marine Corps Pfc. Jordan Long, the son of Susan Morton of Klamath Falls and Richard Long, Jr. of Klamath Falls, recently completed the Marine Corps Basic Enlisted Supply Course.
During the course with Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools Training Command, Camp Lejeune, N.C., he learned to use supply publications and catalogs, general accounting, and the basics of naval correspondence.
Long is a 2009 graduate of Klamath...
Army Reserve Spec. Joseph Scott has been mobilized and activated at Fort Dix, N.J., in preparation for deployment to serve in support of either Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom.
He is a member of the 382nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion based in Seattle.
The soldiers are normally activated from Army Reserve or Army National Guard units from throughout the U.S. They go through a series of in-processing procedures and training classes that prepare them for skills and situations they may face in their deployed environment.
Scott, a rifleman, has four years of military service.
He resides in Midland.
Pfc. David Neu Jr., 19, Klamath Falls, graduated from U.S. Marine Corps boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif., on Jan. 29, 2010.
He completed 13 weeks of intensive basic training as one of 69 recruits in Training Platoon 2107.
Following 10 days home on leave, he will report to Camp Pendleton, Calif., for one month of military combat training, then Military Occupation Specialty School at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Neu is a 2009 graduate of Mazama High School and the son of Lance and Mary Worton of Klamath Falls.
Pvt. Shannon Spence completed her basic training in the U.S. Army in May 2009 at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
She also completed extensive physical and combat training and advanced training as a heavy equipment mechanic at Fort Leonard Wood.
She was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, in October 2009 with the 20th Engineer Battalion and deployed to Afghanistan on Jan. 20 of this year.
Spence is the daughter of Linda and Dennis Utley of Chiloquin and Tracy Spence of Bakersfield, Calif., and the mother of Darrien Utley, 9, and Mikayla Spence, 5, of Chiloquin.
Air Force Airman Matthew Cook graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
He completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
He also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Cook is the son of Deborah, and stepson of William Gilliland of Klamath Falls and a 2009 graduate of Mazama High School.
Navy Airman Recruit Paul Verling, son of Donna Cleveland of Medford and Bill Verling of Klamath Falls, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week program, he completed a variety of training that included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.
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U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Christopher Volpe shakes hands with one of the children near where he has been stationed at Combat Outpost Sabari, Khost, Afghanistan since last February. He is due to return to Fort Richardson, Alaska, either this February or March. He is the son of Kathy Stanek and brother of Steven and Jakob Volpe of Klamath Falls.
Navy Fireman John Hagerman Fletcher, grandson of George and Willma Hagerman of Klamath Falls, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week program he completed a variety of training that included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness. He is a 2009 graduate of Klamath Union High School.
All veterans who have served honorably for our nation, are entitled to receive military honors at their interment or memorial service. The family of the deceased veteran must inform the funeral director of their wish to have military honors. It is the responsibility of the funeral director to inform the family of all of the entitlements available, i.e. burial flags, headstones and presentation of military honors, to include all available resources for providing each.
One such resource for providing military honors is the voluntary members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Pelican Post 1383 and Crater Lake Detachment of the Marine Corps League’s Color Guard. This service is at no cost to the family. However, donations are accepted to offset the cost of transportation and uniforms.
Please remember, our veterans have earned the rights to military honors and all family members should question their funeral director for this information.
For more information, please contact the Commander of VFW Pelican Post 1383...
Army Pvt. Joseph Grohs graduated from One Station Unit Training at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga.
The training consisted of basic military training and advanced individual training.
During basic military training, Grohs received instruction in drill and ceremonies, military customs and courtesies, map reading, tactics, basic rifle marksmanship, physical fitness, field training, and first aid skills. He also developed combat skills and handled various weapons available to the infantry soldier.
During advanced individual training, he received instruction to serve as an infantryman/mortarman using light and heavy anti-armor weapons, indirect-fire support, and mechanized operations while assigned to a rifle or mortar squad. This training included weapons qualification, tactics, patrolling, navigation, field communications, and combat operations and also engagement in infantry combat exercises, battle drills, land mine locating, neutralizing and extracting, and survival operations during...
Navy Seaman Apprentice Mark Bailey, son of Vicki and Darwin Bailey of Klamath Falls, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week program, he completed a variety of training that included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.
Bailey is a 1999 graduate of Henley High School.
Army Pvt. Luke Wehr has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.
During his nine weeks of training, he studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading and land navigation, foot marches, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.
Wehr is the son of David Wehr of Klamath Falls and a 2006 graduate of Triad High School.
Master-at-Arms Second Class Petty Officer Troy Gollihar has re-enlisted in the U.S. Navy for three years while underway aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69).
He graduated from Lakeview High School in Lakeview in 2003.
Since his induction in the Navy on July 23, 2003, he has served onboard the USS Sacramento (AOE-1) at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Security Detachment and at the Naval Support Activity Security Detachment in Bahrain and Jebel Ali located in the country of Dubai in the Middle East.
Currently, he is stationed at NAS Whidbey Island with Electronic Attack Squadron 140, where he is the command master at arms and the First Lieutenant Division leading petty officer. This squadron is attached to Carrier Air Wing Seven aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69).
Gollihar is married to Ali Gollihar and has a son Nikolos. His mother Myra Cundiff, his grandparents Ouida and Troy Cundiff, his brother Buddy Gollihar, his aunt and uncle Janis and Clyde Ladner all live in the...
Army National Guard Private 1st Class Ryan Hadden has graduated from basic military training at Army Base, Fort Benning, Ga.
He completed an intensive nine-week program that started in June 2008 while he was on his summer break between his junior and senior years in high school.
While there, his training included physical fitness, rifle marksmanship, grenade launching, obstacle course training, first aid and combat lifesaving skills, various weapons and weapons defenses available to infantry crewman, battlefield operations and tactics, self discipline and military discipline, map reading, military courtesy, military justice, chemical warfare and bayonet training, marching, armed and unarmed combat, and the Army mission.
Following his high school graduation, Hadden attended advanced individual training, at Fort Benning. This nine-week course is designed to train infantry soldiers to perform reconnaissance operations; employ, fire and recover anti-personnel and anti-tank mines; locate and neutralize land mines...
Air National Guard Airman Jessica Reed graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
She completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
She also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Reed is the daughter of Michael Reed of Henderson, Nev., and Deena Reed of Klamath Falls.
Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Nathaniel Hamilton graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
He completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
He also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Hamilton is the son of Virginia and Gregory Hamilton of Klamath Falls and a 2009 graduate of Henley High School.
Air National Guard Airman Randall Forsythe graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
He completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
He also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Forsythe earned distinction as an honor graduate of the course.
He is the son of Melissa Presley Klamath Falls, Ore.
Army Pvt. Kimberly Howard graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. on Oct. 9.
During her nine weeks of training, she studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.
She is currently at Fort Lee, Va., for advanced individual training, her military occupational specialty is 92 Yankee-Unit Supply Specialist. She will next be stationed at Fort Knox, Ky.
Howard is the daughter of Dewayne and Wendy Howard of Keno, the sister of Tia Howard, and the granddaughter of Richard and Arlene Howard and John and Terry Neese.
Pvt. 2 Tiffany Underwood entered U.S. Army boot camp one week after graduating from Mazama High School last spring.
She completed boot camp at Fort Jackson, S.C., in September and advanced individual training at Fort Lee, Va., this month.
She will now be stationed for the next three years in Bamberg, Germany.
Underwood is the daughter of Jeff and Christina Gonzales of Klamath Falls.
Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Ian Glazebrook graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
He completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
He also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Glazebrook is the son of Glenn and stepson of Danielle Glazebrook of Keno and is a 2008 graduate of Henley High School.
Air Force Airman Alisa Botens graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
She completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
She also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Botens is the daughter of Michael Botens of Winston and Cheryl Clayton of Klamath Falls.
Air Force Airman Ryan Conroy graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
He completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
He also earned four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
Conroy is the son of Denise and Kevin Conroy of Klamath Falls and a 2009 graduate of Henley High School.
Army Pvt. Steven Stacey graduated from basic combat training at Fort Knox, Ky., on Nov. 5, 2009.
During his nine weeks there, he underwent extensive training in rifle marksmanship, physical fitness and basic soldier skills. He was taught the Army’s seven core values and learned the principles and spirit that make soldiers proud to wear the uniform of this country.
He remains at Fort Knox for advanced individual training as an M1A1 Mechanic. He is being trained in the maintenance of Abrams and Bradley systems. As a warrior mechanic, he will provide support for today’s mechanized forces.
Stacey is a 2008 graduate of Chiloquin High School and the son of Carla and Mark Baker and grandson of Junie and Jerry Stacey, all of Chiloquin.
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