Rob Craft retires from highway patrol
Kansas Highway Patrol Technical Trooper Robert Craft of Marion retired Sept. 10 from the patrol after serving for 26 years.
Craft joined KHP June 18, 1981, and was assigned to road patrol duties in the Marion area. In 1994, he was promoted to master trooper and continued patrolling in the Marion area.
He became a sergeant in 1999, and was the firearms coordinator in the area. In 2001, he became the firearms coordinator at the Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy at Salina. He became a technical trooper in 2004, and continued his firearms duties at the training academy.
As a member of the patrol, Craft was the Troop C (north-central Kansas, range master from 1988 to 1993, and was assistant range master at the training academy from 1990 to 1997, and the training academy range master from 1997 until his retirement.
Craft is a graduate of Clay County Community High School, Clay Center, served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1975 to 1979, holding the rank of sergeant and acting as chief of an HH 46 helicopter crew that performed search and rescue missions.
