The Ellis County Press: Joseph Bursby

Joseph Bursby
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Editor on 08/06/2009 13:57:00


WAXAHACHIE - Army Pvt. Joseph Bursby has graduated from the Infantryman One
Station Unit Training at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga.
The training consists of Basic Infantry Training and Advanced Individual
Training.
The Advanced Individual Training course is designed to train infantry soldiers
to perform reconnaissance operations; employ, fire and recover anti-personnel
and anti-tank mines; locate and neutralize land mines and operate target and
sight equipment; operate and maintain communications equipment and radio
networks; construct field firing aids for infantry weapons; and perform infantry
combat exercises and dismounted battle drills, which includes survival
procedures in a nuclear, biological or chemical contaminated area.
He is the son of Joel Bursby of Waxahachie and the brother of Nick Johnson of
Albuquerque, N.M.