Army National Guard Pvt. Maccabee E. Haas 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, the military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches and field training exercises.
Hass is the son of Joseph and Janet Haas of Dill Brook Road, Petersburgh.
He is a 2011 graduate of the High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Bronx.
