Army Pvt. Clyde D. Hodge

Army Pvt. Clyde D. Hodge 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. Hodge is the son of Clyde and Alice Hodge of Shadowbrook Lane, Newburgh, N.Y., and nephew of Falisa Cotten of Alladin Court, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. He is a 2004 graduate of Roy C. Ketcham High School, Wappingers Falls.