{"id":286,"date":"2025-01-30T03:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2025-01-30T04:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:04:40","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38335\/2025\/01\/Picture-of-me-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-292\" style=\"width:234px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38335\/2025\/01\/Picture-of-me-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38335\/2025\/01\/Picture-of-me-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38335\/2025\/01\/Picture-of-me-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38335\/2025\/01\/Picture-of-me-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I am a United States Air Force veteran of 9 years. I was part of the first 1,000 enlisted members chosen to transition to the United States Space Force as a founding member, where I served an additional 3 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During my time with the USAF, I worked as an Information System Security Officer at Ellsworth Air Force Base for 6 years. During that time, I was also tasked to deploy overseas for two 6-month deployments where I practiced my cybersecurity skillset in a deployed environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following my assignment at Ellsworth AFB, I moved to Keesler AFB where I taught new Airmen the basics of cybersecurity as a Technical Training Instructor so the new recruits could graduate and take their newly acquired skills to the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My final 3 years as an enlisted member of the USSF were at Peterson Space Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, Colorado. While stationed here, I worked with extremely important and sensitive projects that supported the local area, but also the entire continental United States, to include Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a United States Air Force veteran of 9 years. I was part of the first 1,000 enlisted members chosen to transition to the United States Space Force as a founding member, where I served an additional 3 years. During my time with the USAF, I worked as an Information System Security Officer at&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/about-me\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30447,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bnorton92\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}