U.S. Army Pvt. D’Angelo L. Dillard has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Jackson, 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.

Dillard is the son of Vivian Dillard and Deandre Claiborne and grandson of Joanne Gipson, all of Suffolk. He graduated in 2015 from King’s Fork High School.