Photos by Sky Strauss, Staff Writer<\/p>\n
Missouri Military Academy honored veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice by conducting a military review on Nov. 11 in MMA’s Alain M. Garcia Field House\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take great pride in the military service of many of our faculty, staff, and alumni,\u201d MMA President Brigadier General Richard V. Geraci, USA (Ret). said in a press release. \u201c Our Veterans Day review, involving the entire Academy, is a special event on our campus each year. It is a privilege to honor all those who have sacrificed and supported our country through military service, and we encourage all local veterans to attend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Military reviews are reserved for special occasions at MMA, including Alumni Weekend\/Homecoming, Fall Family Weekend, Veterans Day, Spring Family Weekend, and Mother\u2019s Day. A review consists of four stages: a formation of cadets, inspection, presentation and honors, and a pass in review.<\/p>\n
During the formation of cadets, MMA\u2019s cadet battalion staff (cadet leaders) and band lead MMA\u2019s cadet companies. Next, inspection occurs, where the reviewing officers inspect the corps of cadets. This leads into presentation and honors, in which the cadet officers and colors are posted and the national anthem is played. In stage four, the corps of cadets pass in review in tribute to the honorees.<\/p>\n
A series of special designations and promotions were also made at the review.<\/p>\n
The following designations were made for the 2025-2026 school year:<\/p>\n
Battalion Staff Group<\/p>\n
Battalion S-3 (Operations Officer): Mateo Eaton Villarreal<\/p>\n
Echo Company<\/p>\n
Company Commander: Aaden Bado<\/p>\n
The following promotions went into effect today:<\/p>\n
Staff Sergeant<\/p>\n
Alexander Jones<\/p>\n
First Lieutenant<\/p>\n
Erick Bond, William Larson, Kam Ho Liu and Erick Shellabarger<\/p>\n
Captain<\/p>\n
Fernando Puebla and Jacob Stallone<\/p>\n
Major<\/p>\n
River Punab-Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos by Sky Strauss, Staff Writer Missouri Military Academy honored veterans and their families for their service and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}