{"id":192486,"date":"2025-05-05T21:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192486"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:19:36","slug":"saxton-accepted-at-u-s-naval-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/05\/saxton-accepted-at-u-s-naval-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Saxton accepted at U.S. Naval Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SWANTON &#8212; On Sunday, Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH5)&nbsp;recognized students from Ohio\u2019s Fifth Congressional District on their acceptance to one of the U.S. Military Service Academies at 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard.&nbsp;All of the students were nominated by Congressman Latta and have received offers of appointment for the Class of 2029 at their respective academies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of those students is Jayden Saxton, a senior at Ottoville High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was an honor to nominate these students from Ohio\u2019s Fifth District to attend one of our U.S. Military Service Academies,\u201d&nbsp;Latta said.&nbsp;\u201cI thank each and every student for stepping up to serve our country, and I know they will do well as they embark on this new journey.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Students honored at Sunday\u2019s event and their respective appointments:<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Connor, Avon, U.S. Military Academy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace Anderson, Norwalk, U.S. Naval Academy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayden Saxton, Ottoville, U.S. Naval Academy\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connor Bender, Avon Lake, U.S. Naval Academy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garrett Cook, Norwalk, U.S. Military Academy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Paul Gray, Findlay, U.S. Military Academy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Knight, Republic, U.S. Military Academy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian Soltis, North Ridgeville, U.S. Air Force Academy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Not able to attend:<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Sikora, Avon, U.S. Military Academy&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information SWANTON &#8212; On Sunday, Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH5)&nbsp;recognized students from Ohio\u2019s Fifth Congressional District on their acceptance to one of the U.S. Military Service Academies at 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard.&nbsp;All of the students were nominated by Congressman Latta and have received offers of appointment for the Class of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 18:41:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192553,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192486\/revisions\/192553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}