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Tyler Fletcher, a 2003 graduate of Fort Scott High School, has completed technical military training for the United States Air Force.

Fletcher entered the U.S. Air Force in April, going through a six-and-a-half week basic military training course at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

After graduation from basic training, Fletcher attended the first part of his technical schooling at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. It was there that he graduated from the military's 8-week electronics principles course as a distinguished graduate, an award that less than one percent of the Airmen in training ever achieve.

His next assignment was at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he would go on to spend 13 weeks learning about the navigation and targeting systems for the F-15, F-16, and A-10 aircraft. Fletcher also learned to maintain the camera system for the U-2 space planes.

He and his wife, Amy, are now based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C. Friends will be able to get contact information for Tyler and Amy through family in Fort Scott; grandparents Howard and Agnes Armstrong, and Maurice Fletcher, or his parents David and Diana Fletcher.