{"id":7041,"date":"2011-12-02T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T07:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2011-12-02T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T07:22:26","slug":"ranking-marine-corps-official-leads-delegation-to-saipan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ranking-marine-corps-official-leads-delegation-to-saipan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking Marine Corps official leads delegation to Saipan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>A top military official will lead a delegation that would visit Saipan for the first time tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Brig. Gen. Daniel D. Yoo, Commanding General for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot\/Western Recruiting Region, is expected to arrive today as part of a seven-member team who will meet with Mayor Donald G. Flores, according to Sgt. Gregorio Comeo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is their first visit on Saipan and they are here for just one day,\u201d Comeo told Saipan Tribune in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>Comeo, U.S. Marines recruiting officer for the CNMI, the Philippines, and Japan, said the team&#8217;s visit is part of an initiative to see recruiting stations in the entire Pacific in support of recruitment efforts in the region.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the U.S. Marines Recruiting Office has four new recruits from Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.<\/p>\n<p>Yoo, who was commissioned in March 1985 as a second lieutenant after completion of Officer Candidate School, relieved Maj. Gen. Ronald L. Bailey in a change of command ceremony held on June 30 at the commanding general&#8217;s lawn in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p>Born on July 4, 1962 in Seoul, Korea, Yoo received a bachelor&#8217;s degree from Arizona State University in 1985 and is a Marine Combatant Diver, a Military Freefall Parachutist, and a graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger Schoo.<\/p>\n<p>Yoo was assigned as the Commandant of the Marine Corps&#8217; Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City in September 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter A top military official will lead a delegation that would visit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}