{"id":349492,"date":"2021-08-09T06:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=349492"},"modified":"2021-08-09T06:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:01:53","slug":"chenille-espinosa-graduates-from-basic-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/chenille-espinosa-graduates-from-basic-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Chenille Espinosa graduates from basic training"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_349493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349493\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Chenille-Espinosa-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-349493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Chenille-Espinosa-mug-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chenille \u201cChanel\u201d Elayda Espinosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>U.S. Air Force airman Chenille \u201cChanel\u201d Elayda Espinosa recently graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Espinosa, a former student of Saipan Southern High School, and an athlete for Saipan\u2019s women basketball and softball teams, completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.<\/p>\n<p>Airmen who complete basic training also earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 15 Flights, Espinosa\u2019s Flight Crew also won Commander\u2019s Excellence.\u00a0This was also the first squadron to have families come over since 2019 due to the COVID-19. pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Espinosa is the daughter of Darius and Grace Espinosa, sister of Nicole Joy, Jayden Keith, and a\u00a0fellow airman Daryl \u201cDJ\u201d Espinosa. who is currently active in the U.S. Air Force and also an alumnus of Saipan Southern High School. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Air Force airman Chenille \u201cChanel\u201d Elayda Espinosa recently graduated from basic military training at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":349525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349492","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=349492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}