A Jefferson-Scranton graduate recently completed a military training course and received a promotion.

Kane Marquardt is a Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadet at the University of Iowa and he recently graduated from the Cadet Leader Course (CLC) in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

CLC is designed to develop a cadet’s critical thinking and problem solving abilities between their junior and senior years.  It also builds upon the work that’s accomplished on a college campus and develops a cadet’s small unit leadership ability in a tactical environment.

Marquardt completed the 30-day summer training course and he is now a commissioned second lieutenant in the United States Army, Army National Guard or Army Reserve.

He graduated Jefferson-Scranton High School in 2012.