Bolingbrook Soldier Commissioned As Second Lieutentant

Sgt. 1st Class Anthony McClain of , with Company A, 405th Brigade Support Battalion in Streator was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Illinois Army National Guard June 13 at Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

McClain, an alumni of George Washington High School in Chicago, enlisted in the Illinois Army National Guard Army in 1996 shortly after graduation. He completed the Illinois National Guard's Officer Candidate School in 2010. McClain served in an overseas mission in Germany in 2000 and was mobilized to support Operation Noble Eagle in 2003.