Army National Guard Pvt. Elaine Lefebvre 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.
Lefebvre is the daughter of Thomas Lefebvre of North Val Vista Drive, Mesa, Ariz., and cousin of Jessica Howelett of William Street, Westfield, Mass.
She is a 2003 graduate of Southwick-Tolland Regional High School, Southwick, Mass.
