{"id":1723,"date":"2025-11-10T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:23:07","slug":"former-marine-one-crewman-advocates-for-fellow-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/former-marine-one-crewman-advocates-for-fellow-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Marine One crewman advocates for fellow veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/magazine-up-close-taking-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently highlighted<\/a> Brandon Parks M\u201925, a Marine Corps veteran, a first-generation college graduate, one of four children and part of the first cohort to earn degrees in Furman University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/advocacy-and-social-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advocacy and Social Policy<\/a> master\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon served as a crew chief in aviation, quickly rising through the ranks to become a quality assurance inspector and, eventually, a member of the elite HMX-1 Presidential Helicopter Squadron. From 2009 to 2014, Parks traveled the globe alongside President Barack Obama, maintaining and clearing aircraft for presidential transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University\u00a0recently highlighted Brandon Parks M\u201925, a Marine Corps veteran, a first-generation college graduate, one of four children and part of the first cohort to earn degrees in Furman University\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[179,223,133],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy-social-policy","tag-advocacyandsocialpolicy","tag-furman-innovation-lab","tag-graduate-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/graduate-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}