{"id":1507524,"date":"2026-05-17T15:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1507524"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:13:27","slug":"u-s-rep-moran-honors-military-academy-selectees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1507524","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Moran honors academy selectees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/moran-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1507525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/moran-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/moran-274x275.jpg 274w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/moran.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TYLER \u2013  U.S. Republican Congressman Nathaniel Moran stopped in Tyler on Saturday to congratulate five East Texas students who\u2019ve been accepted into military academies across the United States. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is especially meaningful to me as the United States Congressman to have the opportunity to make sure that we are picking leaders of character for tomorrow, that we\u2019re sending East Texans throughout the nation to be the leaders in the military and the nation for generations to come because I think East Texas makes the best leaders, and I think that our students need to have influence in all of these academies.\u201d Moran said <\/p>\n<p>Thanks in part to Moran\u2019s nomination, Brooks Frans and James Thompson will join the United States Naval Academy, while Brock Sieber and Jayden Riley will serve in the United States Air Force Academy and Nora Ni will join the United States Military Academy at West Point.<\/p>\n<p>The process to be admitted into a United States military academy often requires the applicant to get a nomination from a United States Congressman, like Moran, or a Senator, the Vice President or even the President, unless they\u2019re applying to join the Coast Guard\u2019s academy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 U.S. Republican Congressman Nathaniel Moran stopped in Tyler on Saturday to congratulate five East Texas students who\u2019ve been accepted into military academies across the United States. \u201cThis is especially meaningful to me as the United States Congressman to have the opportunity to make sure that we are picking leaders of character for tomorrow, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1507524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rep. Moran honors academy selectees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1507942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/moran-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:44:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/moran-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507524"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508219,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507524\/revisions\/1508219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}