MILITARY NEWS | Caldejon completes basic training

Published 9:22 am Thursday, November 7, 2013

Army Reserve Spec. Alicia V. Caldejon 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.

Caldejon is the daughter of Ofelio Caldejon of Port Orchard and granddaughter of Victor Valencia of Oak Harbor.

She is a 2005 graduate of South Kitsap High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 2009 from Eastern Washington University in Cheney.