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Eric D. Hammond graduated from the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker in Daleville, Ala., and was appointed to the rank of warrant officer one.

The student completed an intense six-week course conducted in a demanding, rigorous, high-stressed and deadline-required environment. The candidate received training in leadership skills, Army customs, doctrine, tradition, and tactics, drill and ceremonies, professional ethics, physical fitness, time-stress-people management skills, decision making, delegation and personnel skills, and numerous other military academic subjects. Students gain experience in leadership to attain higher responsibility while maintaining professionalism and quality work performance and standards required of career warrant officers.

Warrant officers continue to further their training through technical and tactical certification. As the officers gain progressive levels of expertise and leadership, they operate, maintain, administer and manage equipment, support activities or technical systems.

The warrant officer is an information systems technician with 11 years of military service. Hammond, a 1994 Tonganoxie High School graduate, is the son of Delbert Hammond, Tonganoxie.