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Army 2nd Lt. Rudolph S. Zombek graduates

Army 2nd Lt. Rudolph S. Zombek, a graduate of North Babylon High School, has graduated from the Army Basic Officer Leader Course III, designed to ensure a tough, standardized, small-unit leadership experience for officers. The course develops and produces competent, confident and adaptable officers with increased maturity equipped to share a common bond with their combined arms peers. The officers are trained to solve dilemmas, make rapid decisions and lead soldiers in the contemporary operating environment. Graduates are prepared and readied to lead small units upon arrival at their first assignment.

The focus of the course is to provide branch training related to the officer's job/ duty assignment, which includes the required skills and training qualifications to perform his/her occupational specialty duties in a field environment. Engineer leadership and digitization training are also part of the course.

Zombek, an armor officer with three years of military service, is assigned to the 3rd Brigade, 10th Maintenance Division, Fort Drum, Watertown, New York

He is the son of Walter J. Zombek of Mastic Beach, and Danico F. McClelland of North Babylon.

The lieutenant graduated in 2001 from North Babylon and received a bachelor's degree in 2006 from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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