{"id":223475,"date":"2016-03-21T06:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=223475"},"modified":"2016-03-21T06:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T20:06:55","slug":"tisdale-appointed-us-air-force-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tisdale-appointed-us-air-force-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tisdale appointed to US Air Force Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_223476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223476\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Tisdale-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-223476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Tisdale-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo with Tomoya Tisdale and family. Bordallo nominated Tisdale to the U.S. Air Force Academy. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-223476\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-223476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo with Tomoya Tisdale and family. Bordallo nominated Tisdale to the U.S. Air Force Academy. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo announced that Tomoya Tisdale has been appointed to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p> Tomoya was nominated by Congresswoman Bordallo, and competed with nominees nationwide for admission into the Air Force Academy. He is the son of Wayne Tisdale and Yoshimi Nakazato from Piti. Tomoya will graduate from Guam High School this June.<\/p>\n<p>Tomoya is an active member of the Guam High School NJROTC program where he serves as the Commanding Officer. He is also the president of the Guam Honor Band and is a member of the Guam Territorial Band. Additionally, Tomoya is a member of the U.S. Sea Cadet Corps and Side Kicks Soccer Club.  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI am proud of Tomoya and congratulate him on his appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy,\u201d said Bordallo. \u201cTomoya has displayed academic excellence and a commitment to service and leadership throughout his high school career. His NJROTC experience has helped prepare him for the Academy and demonstrates his eagerness to serve our country. I look forward to Tomoya\u2019s success at the Air Force Academy and in his career as an Air Force officer.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo announced that Tomoya Tisdale has been appointed to the United&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":223476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10416,9323,10417,10418],"class_list":["post-223475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-air-force-academy","tag-guam-high-school","tag-guam-honor-band","tag-tomoya-tisdale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}