Second Lieutenant Chase Bureman, USMC, recently graduated from the Basic School for Marine Officers in Quantico, Virginia.

Bureman was on the commanding general honor roll for placing in the top 10 percent of the class, and received the Major General Merrit A. Edson Marksmanship Award for the best combined marksmanship for rifle and pistol.

A graduate of Purdue Univeristy in mechanical engineering, he is training at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida to become a Marine aviator.

Bureman is son of James and Sherry Bureman of Springfield, Missouri, and the grandson of Matthew and Mary Kay Classen of Marion.