Army Pfc. Brady A. Kraft graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina.

During nine weeks of training, he studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.

He is the son of Kimberly Whitney of Tacoma and Matthew Kraft of Federal Way.

Kraft is a 2014 graduate of Decatur High School.