SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, (WINK) \u2014 A 17-year-old high school student was sworn into the United States Coast Guard on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Tristan Miranda, a senior at Riverdale High School, is preparing to embark on his journey with the Coast Guard after graduation. Family members clapped and cheered as he took his oath.<\/p>\n
“Very exciting morning,” Miranda said. “You know, I’ve been training for this moment to finally get past everything I need to get past to be able to swear in.”<\/p>\n
Miranda said his journey began four years ago when he joined the JROTC program at Riverdale High School.<\/p>\n
“This program is amazing,” Miranda said. “It’s taken me so many places, including out of the state for certain events, I would highly recommend it to anybody who’s not in it, because it’s taken me this far.”<\/p>\n
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Miranda is now looking ahead to his future with the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n
“I’m really hoping to be stationed outside of the country, because then I get to travel a little bit and experience new cultures,” Miranda said. “I’m also excited for the jobs that come with it.”<\/p>\n
His mother, Jessica Miranda, expressed her pride in her son’s accomplishment.<\/p>\n
“As a mom, this is everyone’s dream to make sure that your kids are very successful in life,” Jessica Miranda said. “And I’m very proud of him.”<\/p>\n
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Miranda has basic training scheduled for August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, (WINK) \u2014 A 17-year-old high school student was sworn into the United States Coast Guard on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,96083,7649],"class_list":["post-222375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-jrotc","tag-united-states-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}