FROM STAFF REPORTS

Daniel F. Johnston has completed a U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) field-training encampment at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, S.D.

The training gives students their first exposure to a working Air Force environment and an opportunity to learn and apply officer leadership theory, techniques and responsibilities.

Encampment training includes leadership evaluation exercises, officer specialty orientation, survival techniques, confidence course, physical fitness, aircraft and aircrew orientation and study of the organization and functions of an Air Force base.

Johnston is currently attending Auburn University. He is the son of Sharon K. Johnston of Alabaster, and a 2005 graduate of Thompson High School