WRBL

‘It’s awesome being able to see my family’: Soldiers graduation ceremony to ring in the Fourth of July

COLUMBUS, Ga (WRBL) — The National Infantry Museum hosted a graduation ceremony for soldiers completing infantry training. A day before Fourth of July, soldiers who completed 22 weeks of basic ...
NBC Montana

ROTC student to become 1st female from UM to serve in Army infantry

MISSOULA, Mont. — An ROTC student majoring in accounting at the University of Montana decided to serve in the U.S. Army infantry upon graduation. Hannah Schuler learned she would be the first woman to ...
WRBL

Nearly 800 infantry soldiers graduate in ceremony at Inouye Field

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — About 4,000 people gathered at Inouye Field on the morning of Dec. 13 to watch 781 trainees graduate from 22 weeks of One Station Unit Training (OSUT) at Fort Moore. While Fort ...
WRAL

First woman to graduate Marine's Infantry Officer Course

The US Marine Corps is gearing up for the graduation of its first-ever female infantry officer. The woman, a lieutenant whose name has not been disclosed, will be the first female officer to complete ...

Soldier who died in Fort Leonard Wood range incident was a month from graduating basic

Pvt. Andrey Okunev, an 18-year-old National Guardsman assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry Regiment, suffered a “fatal injury” while training on the range on Sept. 5. Medical ...
Stars and Stripes

Fort Moore trainee dies just weeks before graduation

ATLANTA — A 20-year-old Fort Moore trainee died in a “non-training-related incident” on the Georgia Army post about three weeks before he was expected to graduate from the service’s infantry entrance ...
Army Times

Fort Moore soldier dies during training weeks before graduation

Pfc. Cesar Gonzalez, a 21-year-old soldier hailing from Chicago, passed away shortly after suffering from a "medical emergency" during a training exercise at Fort Moore on Oct. 20. (Army) A ...