Army ROTC

Cadet completes

leader training

Nathan Rector, an Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has completed a Cadet Troop Leader Training assignment.

CTLT allows Army ROTC cadets to experience leadership in Army units throughout the Continental United States as well as overseas, where they serve in lieutenant-level positions for three or four weeks.

The cadets work with and under assigned unit mentors in situations where their potential as platoon leaders can be evaluated.

Rector is the son of Janice Dematto of Allentown.

He is a 2011 graduate of Allentown Central Catholic High School, Allentown.

Fort Knox

ROTC cadet

graduates

Sivana E. Barriga has graduated from the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps Leader Training Course at Fort Knox, Ky.

The four-week course is a leadership internship for cadets that can lead to the ultimate goal of becoming an Army officer.

College students experience and examine the Army without incurring an obligation to serve in the Army or ROTC, and are eligible to receive two-year college scholarship offers and attend the Advanced ROTC Course at their college.

Cadets are observed and evaluated during classroom and field training exercises to determine their officer potential in leadership abilities and skills.

The cadets are trained to have a sound understanding of traditional leadership values during the challenging, motivating "hands-on" training.

The training develops well-disciplined, highly motivated, physically conditioned students, and helps improve the cadets' self-confidence, initiative, leadership potential, decision making, and collective team cohesion.

The cadets receive training in fundamental military skills, Army values, ethics, Warrior ethos, basic rifle marksmanship, small arms tactics, weapons training, drill and ceremony, communications, combat water survival training, rappelling, land navigation, and squad-level operations field training.

Barriga, a student at Temple University, Philadelphia, is the daughter of Isidro S. and Patricio S. Barriga of Allentown.

Army

New Tripoli man

graduates basic

Army Pfc. John Pergosky has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.

During the nine weeks of training, Pergosky 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.

The son of Ann Pergosky of New Tripoli, he is a 2010 graduate of Northwestern Lehigh High School.

Air Force

Valley resident

graduates basic

Air Force Airman Javier L. Mosquera recently graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

Mosquera completed an intensive, eight-week program including training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Mosquera is the son of Marysol Mosquera of Breinigsville, and the grandson of Zenaida Castro of Allentown.

He is a 2012 graduate of Whitehall High School.