{"id":47687,"date":"2022-11-17T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=47687"},"modified":"2022-11-16T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:54:51","slug":"tarleton-cadets-prepare-for-fall-field-training-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-cadets-prepare-for-fall-field-training-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton Cadets Prepare for Fall Field Training Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014&nbsp;Nearly 100 Tarleton State University ROTC cadets are preparing for&nbsp;the fall field training exercise (FTX) Nov. 22 and 23 at the Lietz Ranch, owned by ROTC benefactors Lt. Col. (Retired) Lloyd and Maj. (Retired) Gloria Lietz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The training will focus on small-unit tactical military drills and squad leadership in preparation for the joint FTX in the spring and, ultimately, for Army training at Fort Knox, Ky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/11\/rotc_patch_reg.png\" alt=\"rotc patch reg\" class=\"wp-image-47688\" width=\"331\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/11\/rotc_patch_reg.png 480w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/11\/rotc_patch_reg-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/11\/rotc_patch_reg-300x400.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ninety-nine Tarleton cadets will execute the exercise, overseen by four Army ROTC cadre members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two seniors, Cadet Jacee Halliday and Cadet Sullivan Sanders, developed, planned, resourced and will manage the exercise with cadre oversight. Halliday is a senior political science major from Lipan; she will be commissioned in May 2023. Sanders is a senior kinesiology major from Killeen who will be commissioned Dec. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The training will center on military tactical casualty care treatment, land navigation and small-unit tactical maneuvers, including reconnaissance, ambush and movement-to-contact tasks on an enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis robust FTX will test their larger organizational skills of a 45-soldier platoon conducting tactical maneuvers,\u201d said Tarleton military science professor Maj. Daniel L. Shalchi. \u201cThese exercises will prepare&nbsp;them for their culminating Army training at Fort Knox, where they will be tested physically, technically, tactically and professionally on their military disciplines in their pursuit of becoming officers in the United States Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis fall semester exercise will also better prepare our seniors to become tactical unit leaders in the Army when they commission as second lieutenants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014&nbsp;Nearly 100 Tarleton State University ROTC cadets are preparing for&nbsp;the fall field training exercise (FTX) Nov. 22 and 23 at the Lietz Ranch, owned by ROTC benefactors Lt. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":47689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,423],"tags":[450],"class_list":["post-47687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","tag-leadership-military"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/11\/army-rotc-elegibility-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/homepage\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">_Homepage<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">_Homepage<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Leadership and Military<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Leadership and Military<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 3 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 17, 2022","modified":"Updated on November 16, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 17, 2022 8:00 am","modified":"Updated on November 16, 2022 2:54 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Soldiers in camouflage with paintball gear in a wooded area.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}