{"id":834,"date":"2015-11-10T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=834"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:33:45","slug":"a-stronger-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/a-stronger-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"A stronger corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2015\/11\/Event_ROTC_PresidentOldham_repel_31MAR15_00083-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-835 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2015\/11\/Event_ROTC_PresidentOldham_repel_31MAR15_00083-e-601x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a>After almost losing the ROTC\u00a0Golden Eagle Battalion\u00a0nearly two years ago, Tech\u00a0has continued to improve the\u00a0program, its facilities and the\u00a0opportunities afforded to its\u00a0students.<\/p>\n<p>Tech\u2019s ROTC program\u00a0moved from the West Stadium\u00a0to the building that formerly\u00a0housed University Police, behind\u00a0Matthews-Daniel Hall. The\u00a0university also built a rappel tower\u00a0and had a ribbon cutting in April\u00a0to dedicate both. President Phil\u00a0Oldham was the first to rappel\u00a0down the tower (pictured here).<\/p>\n<p>A group of alumni and others\u00a0have formed an advisory board\u00a0to help guide and promote the\u00a0program into the future. The\u00a0number of scholarships for\u00a0ROTC students has expanded as\u00a0well. These and other efforts are\u00a0part of an ongoing effort to meet\u00a0the goals and objectives U.S.\u00a0Army Cadet Command has set\u00a0to keep Tech\u2019s ROTC program\u00a0alive. <strong>V<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After almost losing the ROTC\u00a0Golden Eagle Battalion\u00a0nearly two years ago, Tech\u00a0has continued to improve the\u00a0program, its facilities and the\u00a0opportunities afforded to its\u00a0students. Tech\u2019s ROTC program\u00a0moved from the West Stadium\u00a0to the building that formerly\u00a0housed University Police, behind\u00a0Matthews-Daniel Hall. The\u00a0university also built a rappel tower\u00a0and had a ribbon cutting in April\u00a0to dedicate both. President Phil\u00a0Oldham was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archive","8":"category-fall15"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}