Army Pvt. Nicholas C. Carmichael 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.
Carmichael is the son of Christopher Carmichael of Park Street, Houlton, and Karen Gentle of Pearl Street, Saco.
He is the grandson of Jeffery Carmichael of Foxcroft Road, also of Houlton. He is a 2012 graduate of Houlton High School.
