{"id":2200,"date":"2013-02-07T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2013-02-07T21:37:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:37:59","slug":"rotc-completes-combat-water-survival-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2013\/02\/07\/rotc-completes-combat-water-survival-test\/","title":{"rendered":"ROTC completes Combat Water Survival Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/rotccwst201302.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2201\" alt=\"rotccwst201302\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/rotccwst201302.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"id_5115544a7f5678791976006\">Jumping off a high dive or swimming across a pool may be a fear for some, but not for the students in the military science program at UW-Stevens Point who completed the Combat Water Survival Test on Thursday, Feb. 7. To make it even more difficult, they completed these tasks in full uniform while carrying equipment. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.477959858920589.94705.191083380941573&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">View Photos<\/a>]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The students completed three events:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Cadets perform a 15-meter swim while wearing ACU uniform, shoes, complete Load Caring Equipment (LCE), and a rubber M16 rifle;<\/li>\n<li>While wearing all of the above cadets jump into the pool and completely submerge, discard weapon and LCE while submerged, and resurface;<\/li>\n<li>Cadets walk off the high dive blindfolded holding a rubber M16 rifle. Upon entering the water, cadets must remove the blindfold and swim back to poolside without losing control of the rubber M16.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping off a high dive or swimming across a pool may be a fear for some, but not for the students in the military science program at UW-Stevens Point who completed the Combat Water Survival Test on Thursday, Feb. 7. To make it even more difficult, they completed these tasks in full uniform while carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,17],"tags":[67,268,305,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}