{"id":25770,"date":"2013-10-04T01:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T04:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25770"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:38:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:38:41","slug":"holy-cross-navy-cadets-host-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/04\/holy-cross-navy-cadets-host-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cross Navy Cadets Host Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Navy article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=76886\">recently highlighted<\/a> the Navy ROTC program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycross.edu\/\">College of the Holy Cross<\/a>, a Catholic university in the Jesuit tradition.\u00a0 While the friendly drill and athletic competition was the topic, it was mostly interesting to read the references to the Catholic college&#8217;s military program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I really enjoyed it,&#8221; said Holy Cross Midshipman 4th Class Annie Grimmke&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the sometime political sensitivity of associating the US military and religion, its a wonder a certain critic of Christianity in the military hasn&#8217;t demanded that Holy Cross either change their name or be stripped of their ROTC program.<\/p>\n<p>The best part, though, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goholycross.com\/landing\/index\">their mascot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re the Holy Cross <em>Crusaders<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The benign, perfectly acceptable, and normal NROTC program at that small school is probably giving that guy an aneurysm right now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Navy article recently highlighted the Navy ROTC program at the College of the Holy Cross, a Catholic university in the Jesuit tradition.\u00a0 While the friendly drill and athletic competition was the topic, it was mostly interesting to read the references to the Catholic college&#8217;s military program: &#8220;I really enjoyed it,&#8221; said Holy Cross Midshipman 4th Class Annie Grimmke&#8230; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[54,4320,85,2,5218,7,36,10,171,767],"class_list":["post-25770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-catholic","tag-college-of-the-holy-cross","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rotc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}