A Fairfield high school graduate, Christopher L. Reynolds, graduated from the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Daleville, Ala., and was appointed to the rank of warrant officer one.

The soldier completed an intense 6-week course conducted in a demanding, rigorous, highstressed, and deadlinerequired environment.

The candidate received training in leadership skills, army customs, doctrine, tradition, and tactics, drill and ceremonies, professional ethics, physical fitness, time-stresspeople management skills, decision making, delegation and personnel skills, and numerous other military academic subjects.

Students gained experience in leadership to attain higher responsibility while maintaining professionalism and quality work performance and standards required of career warrant officers.

As the officers gain progressive levels of expertise and leadership, they operate, maintain, administer and manage equipment, support activities or technical systems throughout their army career. They are highly specialized technical and training experts in their career specialties whom provide valuable skills, guidance and expertise to commanders and organizations.

Warrant officers serve in the regular army, national guard or reserve to fulfill their military service obligation.

Reynolds, a health services technician, is assigned to the 264th Medical Battalion at Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls. He has 12 years of military service.

He is the grandson of Barbara A. Reynolds of Fairfield and Gladys Hill of Pasadena.

The warrant officer is a graduate of Fairfield high school and received an associate degree in 2009 from Central Texas College in Killeen.