{"id":12404,"date":"2015-05-21T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=12404"},"modified":"2015-05-22T09:54:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:54:59","slug":"four-esu-alumni-commissioned-as-officers-in-the-united-states-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/four-esu-alumni-commissioned-as-officers-in-the-united-states-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Four ESU Alumni Commissioned as Officers in the United States Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ROTC-Commissioning-Ceremony.png\" alt=\"ROTC-Commissioning-Ceremony\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"newshide\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Four recent graduates of East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania were commissioned as officers in the United States Army at the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, which was held on Saturday, May 16 at Kings College. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have so much love and gratitude to my family for supporting me and giving me a foundation,\u00a0my unit for showing me what it is to be a leader, and my ESU family for believing in me and pushing me toward greatness,\u201d Victoria Paskiet \u201915 said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony included guest speaker Colonel Gert-Jan Kooij, who served as an engineer officer for more than 25 years. Colonel Kooij\u2019s current assignment is at the U.S. Army War College as an International Fellows Student.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pictured in photo from left to right are David Zettel \u201915,mathematics, Bethlehem, Pa., Joseph Hoy \u201915, economics, Mountainside, N.J., Billy Lacroix \u201915, political science, Philadelphia, Pa., Victoria Paskiet \u201915, chemical biotechnology, East Stroudsburg, Pa., and Denny Douds, head football coach, who represented ESU at the ceremony.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four ESU Alumni Commissioned as Officers in the United States Army <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,22,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12421,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions\/12421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}