  {"id":146611,"date":"2021-08-17T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T03:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=146611"},"modified":"2021-08-17T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T03:34:13","slug":"1st-nrotc-midshipmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/17\/1st-nrotc-midshipmen\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa welcomes 1st <abbr title=\"Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps\">NROTC<\/abbr> midshipmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_146608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146608\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-cadre-2021.jpg\" alt=\"NROTC cadre\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-cadre-2021.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-cadre-2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-cadre-2021-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Âé¶¹´«Ã½M\u0101noa NROTC first cadre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa welcomed its first cadre of Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (<abbr>NROTC<\/abbr>) midshipmen on August 17, in a ceremony attended by top <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> military leaders and the U.S. congressional delegation.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Provost <strong>Michael Bruno<\/strong> hosted the event that highlighted the partnership between the campus and military counterparts. At the brief ceremony U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, U.S. Rep. Ed Case and Adm. Sam Paparo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, acknowledged the long road to establish the program at the campus and honored the first group of students to enroll in the program.<\/p>\n<p>Paparo also administered the Midshipman Oath of Office to the 19 students present for the ceremony. There are 23 students enrolled in the program. The program is expected to attract more students in upcoming years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146607\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-midshipman-schatz-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Schatz with student\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-midshipman-schatz-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-midshipman-schatz-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-midshipman-schatz.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Brian Schatz speaks with one of the new <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa midshipmen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About half of the students are from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½,<\/span> and the student who traveled the farthest was from Kentucky. The program covers the Navy and Marines. Top leaders from the two military branches were present for the ceremony including Rear Adm. Tim Kott, Navy Region <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> and Lt. Gen. Steven Rudder, Marine Corps Base <span aria-label=\"Hawaii.\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa is the first university to host a new <abbr>NROTC<\/abbr> program in the country since 2016. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa has been host to the Air Force and Army <abbr>ROTC<\/abbr> programs under the Office of Student Academic Success.<\/p>\n<p>This work is an example of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=20\">Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\">2015&#8211;25 Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146606\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-salute-2021.jpg\" alt=\"midshipmen salute\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-salute-2021.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-salute-2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/manoa-nrotc-salute-2021-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa midshipmen salute at a ceremony at campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> congressional and military leaders honor the first class of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <abbr>NROTC<\/abbr> program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1466,422,9],"class_list":["post-146611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-nrotc","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146616,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146611\/revisions\/146616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}