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ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PVT. DAVID W. WALLACE has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier was schooled in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics and experiencing use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman.

Son of Theodore and Linda Wallace of Swedesboro, Wallace is a 2003 graduate of Kingsway Regional High School.

NAVY LT. CMDR. ASHLEY C. ROSE, son of George J. Rose, III of Swedesboro, recently reported for duty aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.

Rose is a 1988 graduate of Kingsway High School and joined the Navy in August 1992.

MIDSHIPMAN CHRISTOPHER GEORGE VOSS of Monroeville recently graduated from the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point with the 213 members of the Class of 2007.

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At the Academy's 71st commencement, Voss received a Third Mate (deck) merchant marine license, presented by Vice Admiral Joseph D. Stewart, the Academy's superintendent.

Midshipman Voss was additionally commissioned as a U. S. Naval Reserve ensign and was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Logistics and Intermodal Transportation.

Son of George and Kelly Voss, he was nominated to the academy by Sen. Robert Torricelli.

NAVY LT. J. G. DAVID W. CAVANAUGH whose wife, Jill, is the daughter of Kathleen and Edward Crockett of Sicklerville, recently reported for duty aboard the Precommissioning Unit George H. W. Bush, based at Newport News, Va.

ARMY PVT. OPAL D. MADDRED has graduated from the Automated Logistical Specialist Advanced Individual Training (AIT) course at the U.S. Army Quartermaster Center and School, Fort Lee, Petersburg, Va.

The course is designed to train soldiers to establish and maintain stock records and other documents such as inventory, materiel control, accounting and support reports, automated and manual accounting records and perform prescribed loads and shop stock lists in manual and automated supply
applications.

Daughter of Robert L. Maddred of Williamstown and Diane R. Hall-Wilson of Lindenwold, the private graduated in 2000 from Sterling High School, Somerdale.

ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PFC. DIANA L. DIPALMA has graduated from the Automated Logistical Specialist Advanced Individual Training (AIT) course at the U.S. Army Quartermaster Center and School, Fort Lee, Petersburg, Va.

The course is designed to train soldiers to establish and maintain stock records and other documents such as inventory, materiel control, accounting and support reports, automated and manual accounting records and perform prescribed loads and shop stock lists in manual and automated supply applications.

Daughter of Diane DiPalma of Pitman, DiPalma is a 2003 graduate of Pitman High School.

ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PVT. GUY C. BECKETT JR. has graduated from Basic Combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier 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.

Beckett is the son of Deborah Reed of Paulsboro.

NAVY AIRMAN MATTHEW C. LACOVARA, son of Diana L. LaCovara of Blackwood and Edward N. LaCovara of Erial and his fellow shipmates are currently on a four-month humanitarian assistance deployment while assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, homeported in Norfolk, Va.

After caring for nearly 25,000 patients in Belize and Guatemala, LaCovara's unit arrived in Panama to continue the mission for the Partnership for the Americas. The purpose of this mission is to provide the people of Latin America and the Caribbean with primary care, dental care, optometry and other no-cost health care services.

LaCovara's unit is also scheduled to visit Columbia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.

USNS Comfort has a joint forces crew which includes personnel from the U.S. Armed Forces, Canadian Forces and Project HOPE.

LaCovara is a 2005 graduate of Timber Creek Regional High School of Sicklerville and joined the Navy in June 2006.