{"id":16786,"date":"2014-10-23T17:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T23:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=16786"},"modified":"2014-10-23T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T23:15:17","slug":"rotc-finishes-first-in-regional-ranger-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=16786","title":{"rendered":"ROTC finishes first in regional Ranger Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rotcbanner2.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14225\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rotcbanner2-555x194.png\" alt=\"rotcbanner2\" width=\"555\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rotcbanner2-555x194.png 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rotcbanner2-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rotcbanner2.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UCCS Army Officers\u2019 Training Corps\u00a0program took first place during the regional ROTC Ranger Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The grueling three-day event took place Oct. 17-19 at the Jack\u2019s Valley Training Area on the U.S. Air Force Academy. In total, 16 teams from four states participated in challenges that included a hand grenade assault course, weapons assembly and disassembly, marksmanship, a timed forced march and a mystery event.<\/p>\n<p>The nine member teams of men and women must include a representative from each academic class at the school.<\/p>\n<p>As the winner of the regional event, the UCCS team will travel to San Antonio on Oct. 31 to compete against\u00a0four other regional winners in head-to-head competition for a chance to advance to the United States Military Academy\u2019s annual Sandhurst Competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain Ranger ROTC Battalion traces its roots at UCCS to 1965. The university was designated a host institution in 1981 and in 1983 was reorganized as cadet battalion of two cadet companies and renamed the Mountain Ranger Battalion with partnerships at other Colorado Springs-area universities while remaining based at UCCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The UCCS Army Officers\u2019 Training Corps\u00a0program took first place during the regional ROTC Ranger Challenge. The grueling three-day event took place Oct. 17-19 at the Jack\u2019s Valley Training Area on the U.S. Air Force Academy. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=16786\" title=\"ROTC finishes first in regional Ranger Challenge\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/rotcbanner2-555x194.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4mK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16786"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16800,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16786\/revisions\/16800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}