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Local's daughter finishes basics
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Army Pvt. Kenyatta M. Parker has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
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.
Parker is the daughter of Arthur Parker of Atlanta and Lynda Parker of Hinesville.
The private is a 2006 graduate of the Turner Job Corporation Center, Albany.
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