{"id":89,"date":"2011-03-05T14:14:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-05T01:53:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T01:53:14","slug":"ltc-joe-dcosta-a2-featured-on-army-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"LTC Joe D&#8217;costa (A2) Featured on Army Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LTC Joe D&#39;costa (A2) &#39;89<\/strong>&nbsp;will transfer command of the 1st Battalion, 378th Infantry Regiment on March 12th.&nbsp;&nbsp;A lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, he just completed a 10-month mobilization at Fort Benning as commander of 1st Battalion, 378th Infantry Regiment, a Lafayette, La.-based unit activated to augment basic combat training for the 192nd Infantry Brigade on Sand Hill.&nbsp; &quot;When we talk about the diversity of Soldiers across our Army, Lieutenant Colonel D&#39;Costa&#39;s life story is one that tells a great story and serves as a motivational and inspiring example for our Soldiers, DoD civilians and the nation&#39;s civilian population,&quot; said Lt. Col. Roger O&#39;Steen, the brigade&#39;s executive officer.&nbsp; Read much more about Joe&#39;s background and story&nbsp;at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2011\/02\/02\/51203-battalion-commander-escaped-dictator-in-uganda-to-pursue-dreams-in-america\/\">http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2011\/02\/02\/51203-battalion-commander-escaped-dictator-in-uganda-to-pursue-dreams-in-america\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTC Joe D&#39;costa (A2) &#39;89&nbsp;will transfer command of the 1st Battalion, 378th Infantry Regiment on March 12th.&nbsp;&nbsp;A lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, he just completed a 10-month mobilization at Fort Benning as commander of 1st Battalion, 378th Infantry Regiment, a Lafayette, La.-based unit activated to augment basic combat training for the 192nd Infantry Brigade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}