Army Spec. Diane P. Senez 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. Senez is the daughter of Patricia Trudel of Nassau Drive, Springfield, and niece of Carol Lovell of Mellen Street, Chicopee. She is a 2006 graduate of Southwick-Tolland Regional High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 2010 from the University of Hartford, West Hartford, Conn.
Army Reserve Col. Jeffrey Hart has graduated from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa., and earned a master’s degree in Strategic Studies. The college is the Army’s senior educational institution. The 10-month curriculum of the Army’s senior officer school is designed to prepare and train officers of all the U.S. military branches of service, foreign military officers, as well as senior civilian officials of federal agencies, to serve in top-level command and staff positions with the U.S. Armed Forces worldwide. Hart is a military judge assigned to the 150th Legal Detachment at Legal Command, Md. The colonel has served in the military for 20 years. He is a resident of Eau Claire, Wis. He is the son of Regina Hart of Almont Street, Medford, Mass., and Joseph Hart of Patriots Drive, Westfield, Mass. He is the father of Michael and Monica Hart of Sherman Street, Eau Claire, Wis.