L.A. Robinson completes Army training

Lawrence A. Robinson II graduated from Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army National Guard.

During training, the candidate received "basic soldiering" instruction in leadership, professional ethics, soldier team development, combined arms tactics, weapons defense, squad drill, intelligence, land navigation, field training exercises, maintenance, communications, staff and general military subjects, discipline, and physical training and conditioning.

The new lieutenant will serve as a member of the New Jersey Army National Guard. Robinson has served in the military for six years.

He is the son of Lawrence A. and Celia Beall Robinson or Rural Route 3, Kilgore.

Robinson is a 1988 graduate of Spring Hill High School, Longview, and received a bachelor's degree in 2006 from the American Military University.