{"id":2177,"date":"2021-11-16T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2021-11-16T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:01:12","slug":"troy-university-student-first-troy-afrotc-cadet-selected-for-the-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/11\/16\/troy-university-student-first-troy-afrotc-cadet-selected-for-the-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University student first TROY AFROTC cadet selected for the Space Force."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jaylen Ray, a <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> senior and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-sciences\/departments\/air-force-rotc\/\">Air Force ROTC<\/a> member, has just become the first cadet from the university to be selected for the Space Force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January of this year cadets from TROY had the opportunity to apply to the Space Force through a nomination process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous commander of Detachment 017 nominated Ray who recently received the news that he was selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is kind of emotional to think about because of all the the work I put in the past four years leading up to this moment,&#8221; says Ray. &#8220;Just training here at this Det. to be a leader essentially for any job I was open to but to find out for space and knowing this is a brand new for the U.S. it&#8217;s pretty emotional to think about.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ray will be working with Space Operations where he will monitor satellites in orbit and ensure commercial and militarized assets are safe in orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Claudia&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaylen Ray, a Troy University senior and Air Force ROTC member, has just become the first cadet from the university to be selected for the Space Force. <\/p>\n<p>In January of this year cadets from TROY had the opportunity to apply to the Space Force through a nomination process.<\/p>\n<p>The previous commander of Detachment 017&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/11\/16\/troy-university-student-first-troy-afrotc-cadet-selected-for-the-space-force\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,791,790,789,668],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-claudia-peppenhorst","tag-erin-dunagan","tag-jalen-ray","tag-space-force","tag-troy-afrotc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}