Southeast Missouri native completes basic training

Former Charleston, Mo., resident Anthony T. Quinn has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, Quinn 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. He is the son of Angela Quinn of Charleston and Moses Gater Sr. of Sikeston, Mo. Quinn is a 2002 graduate of Charleston High School.