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Clayton Manning, son of Roger and Susan Manning, of Hot Springs, was recently promoted to the rank of Major in the U. S. Army.
A native of Hot Springs and 1997 graduate of Lakeside High School, Manning received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville in 2001. He continued his education by pursuing both his master’s degree and Ph. D. in clinical psychology from Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Following his completion of his doctoral studies, he received an internship and residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. He was commissioned into the U. S. Army as an officer in 2006 and served as a psychologist working with wounded soldiers at Brooke Army Medical Center, one of five major medical centers for the U. S. Army.
In December 2007, he assessed for and was selected as the Regimental Psychologist for the 75th Ranger Regiment, the Army’s premier raid force and the only special operations infantry regiment within the Army.
He completed basic qualifications needed to work within the organization and completed such noteworthy Army schools as Airborne School, Survival, Evasion, Resist and Escape ( SERE) School and Ranger School, the Army’s premier leadership school.
Manning is one of three active duty psychologists to have completed Ranger School. He has served multiple deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan and has served as command psychologist for the 75th Ranger Regiment for the past four and a half years.
Currently stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., he and his wife, Jennifer, of nine years, currently reside in Fortson, Ga.