{"id":125305,"date":"2022-05-23T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=125305"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:30:53","slug":"services-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/05\/23\/services-for-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Services for service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military veterans and their families were able to connect with employers and service organizations at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetsmovingforward.org\/\">Vets Moving Forward<\/a>\u00a0event at Wright State University\u2019s Student Union on May 18.<\/p>\n<p>This was the fifth year in a row that Wright State hosted the event, which was organized by the Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) and the Greater Miami Valley myVeteran Community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVets Moving Forward was designed by veterans, for veterans,\u201d said Cassie Barlow, Ph.D., president of SOCHE and co-chair of the Greater Miami Valley myVeteran Community.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State students and alumni in attendance were pleased with the university\u2019s involvement with and support for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes me feel incredibly proud that Wright State hosts an event this huge and important,\u201d said Loghan Young, a two-time Wright State alumna and U.S. Army veteran who attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the services that were available at Vets Moving Forward included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Veterans resource fair<\/li>\n<li>Veterans job fair<\/li>\n<li>Disabled American Veterans assistance with disability claims<\/li>\n<li>Dayton VA Medical Center enrollment<\/li>\n<li>Montgomery County veteran ID cards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About 70 veterans service organizations were available to connect and network with veterans, along with 60 companies that were looking to hire veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military veterans were able to connect with employers and service organizations at the\u00a0Vets Moving Forward\u00a0event at Wright State. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/05\/23\/services-for-service\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":125309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,2039,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","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\/125305","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=125305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125321,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125305\/revisions\/125321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}