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Military newsBy Times staff writer© St. Petersburg Times published June 19, 2002 Pvt. Coll J. McCaffery IV, son of Mary and Bud McCaffery of Indian Rocks Beach, has completed basic training at Fort Benning, Ga. He also completed a five-week advanced infantry training course. McCaffery has reported to Fort Campbell, Ky., as a member of the 101st Airborne Division, where he will prepare for air assault school. The National Infantry Association has presented Hugh Wesley Ruckdeschel of Treasure Island with the Military Order of St. Maurice. The Military Order of St. Maurice medallion has been used for several hundred years to recognize distinguished contributions to the infantry. Ruckdeschel, who enlisted in the Army in 1949, completed infantry basic training and infantry leadership school at Fort Jackson, S.C. He reported to the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in Bamberg, Germany, as a rifleman in 1950 where he was promoted to sergeant. He joined Company G, 5th Infantry Regiment, 5th Regimental Combat Team in 1952 as a squad leader and was wounded three times while engaged in combat with Chinese Communist forces. Prior to his release from active duty in 1953, he received the combat infantryman badge, a Purple Heart with two bronze oak leaf clusters, a good conduct medal, a presidential unit citation, a Korean service medal with two battle stars, a United Nations Korean service medal, a Korean presidential unit citation, an occupation medal and a national defense medal. Emily W. Burgess, daughter of Lee and Tom Burgess of St. Petersburg, has received a bachelor's degree with merit in ocean engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. She received her commission as an ensign in the Navy, where she will become a nuclear surface warfare officer. A 1998 graduate of the International Baccalaureate program at St. Petersburg High School, Burgess' first assignment will be in Newport, R.I. Airman Aymee Chantelle Laurain, daughter of Kay and Earl Laurain of St. Petersburg, has completed advanced training for security forces in San Antonio, Texas. She is stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., where she is elite guard to the strategic command center. Laurain is a 2001 graduate of St. Petersburg High School. -- Send Military News to Donna Winchester, St. Petersburg Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731 or winchester@sptimes.com. Please include a photo if available and your return address and phone number.
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