Local Cadet Collin Parker Completes Basic Training At West Point

July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.

By Staff Report-

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Cadet Collin Parker, son of Chris and Melissa Long, Warsaw, and Jeff Parker, Pierceton, completed Cadet Basic Training at the U.S. Military Academy.
Parker entered West Point July 1 and successfully completed six weeks of CBT. CBT is one of the most challenging events a cadet will encounter over the course of their four years at the academy.
The initial military training program provides cadets with basic skills to instill discipline, pride, cohesion, confidence and a high sense of duty to prepare them for entry into the Corps of Cadets. Areas of summer instruction included first aid, mountaineering, hand grenades, rifle marksmanship and nuclear, biological and chemical training.
Parker began classes Aug. 19. The West Point curriculum offers 37 majors balancing physical sciences and engineering with humanities and social sciences leading to a bachelor of science degree.
Parker graduated from Culver Military Academy. He plans to graduate from West Point in 2017 and be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
The mission of the U.S. Military Academy is to educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of duty, honor, country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army.[[In-content Ad]]

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Cadet Collin Parker, son of Chris and Melissa Long, Warsaw, and Jeff Parker, Pierceton, completed Cadet Basic Training at the U.S. Military Academy.
Parker entered West Point July 1 and successfully completed six weeks of CBT. CBT is one of the most challenging events a cadet will encounter over the course of their four years at the academy.
The initial military training program provides cadets with basic skills to instill discipline, pride, cohesion, confidence and a high sense of duty to prepare them for entry into the Corps of Cadets. Areas of summer instruction included first aid, mountaineering, hand grenades, rifle marksmanship and nuclear, biological and chemical training.
Parker began classes Aug. 19. The West Point curriculum offers 37 majors balancing physical sciences and engineering with humanities and social sciences leading to a bachelor of science degree.
Parker graduated from Culver Military Academy. He plans to graduate from West Point in 2017 and be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
The mission of the U.S. Military Academy is to educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of duty, honor, country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army.[[In-content Ad]]
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