{"id":315671,"date":"2020-01-15T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=315671"},"modified":"2020-01-15T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T20:00:35","slug":"guam-guard-soldier-is-named-top-recruiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-guard-soldier-is-named-top-recruiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam Guard soldier is named top recruiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_315673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315673\" style=\"width: 893px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Guam-Guard-pix2.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff Sgt June Owen, from the Guam Army National Guard\u2019s Recruiting and Retention Battalion, left, talks to a potential recruit at the offices in the GCIC Building in Hagatna. (Guam National Guard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BARRIGADA, Guam<\/strong>\u2014Staff Sgt. June Owen was named the Guam Army National Guard\u2019s Recruiting and Retention Battalion\u2019s non-commissioned officer of the year for 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, she recruited more than 20 individuals into the Guam Army National Guard to serve the island and nation, exceeding her goal by more than 30%. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so grateful to be named the local recruiter of the year,\u201d she said. \u201cCompeting against recruiters who are awesome at their job, and who I respect, is such an honor and I am proud to be part of such an elite team.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Owen enlisted in the Guam Army National Guard on July 28, 2011, as a horizontal construction engineer, or 12N, assigned to the 1224th Engineer Support Company. She was tasked as a financial management technician with the Guam Army National Guard Element before moving to the Recruiting and Retention Battalion in August 2018. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaff Sgt. Owen believes in the Guam Army National Guard, so motivating her to go out and recruit was not hard at all,\u201d said Command Sgt. Maj. Ronald Brantley, Guam Army National Guard\u2019s Recruiting and Retention Battalion command sergeant major. \u201cHer professionalism with fellow soldiers, leaders and the community, especially with her assigned school, increased our visibility on the island.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARRIGADA, Guam\u2014Staff Sgt. June Owen was named the Guam Army National Guard\u2019s Recruiting and Retention&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4620,1205],"class_list":["post-315671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-barrigada","tag-guam-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315671","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=315671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}