Pvt. Joseph A. Delgrosso

Army Pvt. Joseph A. Delgrosso has graduated from the H-8 Tracked Vehicle Recovery Specialist Course at Fort Benning, Georgia.

The student acquired the necessary training and knowledge to perform recovery operations with an M88A1/A2 tracked recovery vehicle.  The course included field and classroom training in the proper use of tools, equipment, technical data, and applicable references needed to determine recovery methods, locate recovery sites, operate tactical communications equipment, and maintain recovery vehicle armament systems.

Students learn to drive, maintain, and perform preventive maintenance on recovery vehicles; receives operating instructions in recovery vehicle component equipment, auxiliary power units, and use of proper recovery safety procedures when rigging, recovering and towing tracked vehicles.

Delgrosso is the son of Madeline and Fred Delgrosso of Germonds Road, New City.

He is a 2006 graduate of Clarkstown South High School, West Nyack.