Steven H. Craig has graduated from the Uniformed Services University, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, in Bethesda, Md. The graduate was promoted to the rank of captain commissioned to serve in the Medical Corps of the Army.

The university is the Department of Defense’s military school of medicine, which educates students for direct accession in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Public Health Science. At the school, students complete a four-year course of study to be a military physician. The curriculum includes extra hours in epidemiology, health promotion, disease prevention, tropical medicine, leadership and field exercises, medical effects of weapons of mass destruction, and other subjects related to the military medical career field.

Craig is the son of Richard Craig, Papillion, Neb., and Monica Mackison, Ozawkie.

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Sean Heskew, the son of Christine Kaplan, of Lawrence, has been promoted to the rank of staff sergeant with the Marine Corps.

Heskew recently returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq and is preparing for transfer to the USMC base at Quantico, Va. He is stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego.