MILITARY NEWS: Alex J. Schlebach

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Alex J. Schlebach has graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Officer Nuclear Power School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, S.C.

Nuclear Power School is a rigorous six-month course that trains officer and enlisted students in the science and engineering fundamental to the design, operation, and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants.

Graduates next undergo additional instruction at a prototype training unit before serving as a Surface Warfare Officer aboard a nuclear-powered surface ship or as an Submarine Officer aboard a nuclear-powered submarine.

Schlebach is the son of Bill and Toni Schlebach of Waxahachie.

He is a 2008 graduate of Eustace High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 2012 from Texas A&M University, College Station.