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Deployed
WOODSTOCK --- Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Stuart C. MacGillivray, son of Virginia C. Shumaker of Rayne, La., and Stuart C. MacGillivray Sr of Woodstock, Conn., is currently deployed. MacGillivray along with fellow Sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise hosted a material, maintenance and management assist (3MA) team, as they evaluated the ship's 3M program.
Graduates
COLUMBIA, S.C. --- Army Reserve Pvt. Danny J. Jackman has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson. Jackman is the son of Irene and Charles Jackman of Woodstock Valley. He is a 2010 graduate of the Woodstock Academy.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier 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.
Completes
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. --- Marine Corps Pvt. William C. Matthews, a 2011 graduate of Woodstock Academy, Woodstock, recently completed 12 weeks of basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot designed to challenge new Marine recruits both physically and mentally.