{"id":120450,"date":"2022-03-14T10:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=120450"},"modified":"2022-03-14T10:55:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:55:48","slug":"pilot-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/03\/14\/pilot-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with paintball guns, cadets with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/army-rotc\">Wright State Army ROTC Raider Battalion <\/a>participated in a downed pilot scenario and ambush training exercises at Wright State University\u2019s Calamityville on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of first and second-year cadets participated in exercises. The cadets achieved their mission, which was team building and getting students comfortable in leadership positions.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Fairborn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/calamityville\">Calamityville<\/a> is a 53-acre training, testing and research venue where military and civilian emergency first-responders can hone their skills while building relationships.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time the Raider Battalion has partnered with Calamityville and participated in exercises at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really do feel like this is such a great asset that we have,\u201d said Colton Purves, a senior majoring in organizational leadership and Raider Battalion member. \u201cThis is what can separate us between other universities and other ROTC programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the drills, cadet Samuel Manuszak, a freshman mechanical engineering major, was awarded a three-year advanced designee scholarship in recognition of his academic success and his potential to become a future Army leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed with paintball guns, Wright State Army ROTC cadets participated in a downed pilot scenario and ambush training exercises at Calamityville. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/03\/14\/pilot-program\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":120454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4305,2144,725,727,2039,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-rotc","category-national-center-for-medical-readiness","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-military-veterans","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120502,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120450\/revisions\/120502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}