Tanson graduates from Army National Guard basic training

Pvt. Kathy S. Tanson has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina.

She is the daughter of Dixie Tanson and granddaughter of Carmen Thuemler, both of Corning, and is a 2007 graduate of Corning Union High School.

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.