Nicholas F. Fowler has graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

During the 12 weeks of training, the officer candidate received "basic soldiering" instruction in leadership, professional ethics, soldier team development, combined arms tactics, weapons defense, combat water survival, squad drill, intelligence, field training exercises, day and night land navigation, confidence obstacle course, common core tasks, communications, staff and general military subjects, and physical fitness tests that include three, four and five-mile runs, and foot marches between five and 12 miles carrying rucksacks.

Fowler is a military intelligence officer with less than one year of military service.

He is the son of Kenneth F. and Jeannie M. Fowler of Leo-Cedarville.

The lieutenant graduated in 2004 from Leo Junior-Senior High School, and received a bachelor's degree in 2008 from the University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne.