{"id":1859,"date":"2013-12-13T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2013-12-13T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:45:19","slug":"coba-recognizes-veteran-rob-byrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2013\/12\/13\/coba-recognizes-veteran-rob-byrd\/","title":{"rendered":"COBA Recognizes Veteran Rob Byrd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month, ACU celebrated our veterans during chapel. This month, we want to continue to take time to\u00a0remember those who have courageously fought for our country’s freedom. Rob Byrd, a member of the ACU faculty and\u00a0a former\u00a0officer in the US Air Force from 1982 – 1992,\u00a0served as a navigator,\u00a0electronic warfare officer, flight simulator programmer and supervisor, instructor, signals collection specialist, and\u00a0mission director. He was born in Lafayette, Indiana and graduated with a degree in math from Harding University. He was commissioned into the Air Force in 1982 and served for 10 years before gaining his Masters in Math with an emphasis in Computer Science from Creighton University in 1992. Rob taught in the computer science department Western Kentucky University in addition to developing a new technical major titled Information and Knowledge Management at the York College in Nebraska. Rob joined the ACU faculty in January and now works in the school of IT and Computing.<\/p>\n

Rob originally joined the military seeking an\u00a0adventure and ways to serve others. He describes his time in the military as a time of serving others but in a completely different way. He states, “There were just people, missions, and opportunities to help people-the same opportunities\u00a0I would have had if I had chosen any other career.”\u00a0While in the military, Rob learned the life lesson of serving those who are hard to work with, no matter what the circumstance might be. Serving in the military truly opened his eyes to a different angle of service, performing difficult jobs most\u00a0people would not\u00a0want to do. In addition, Rob believes his service has directly translated to the service he does here at ACU, striving to humbly serve individuals and help them to accomplish their own missions in life. From Paul’s words, Rob encourages individual’s not to “become weary in doing good”. In order to live out God’s calling and mission for our lives we must serve others. ACU honors and thanks other family members, friends, and faculty in the ACU community who have served our country. These include: John Altman, Jim Bartee, Rob Byrd, Malcolm Coco, Brian Golden, Don Jackson, Ray Pettit, Jim Porter, Charles Small, David Swearingen, and Vince Swinney.<\/p>\n

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“Ultimately, what I learned was that one doesn’t really serve countries or companies, but individuals, and that it is more fulfilling to serve others than to be served,” says former Air Force officer Rob Byrd.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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  Last month, ACU celebrated our veterans during chapel. This month, we want to continue to take time to\u00a0remember those who have courageously fought for our country’s freedom. Rob Byrd, a member of the ACU faculty and\u00a0a former\u00a0officer in the US Air Force from 1982 – 1992,\u00a0served as a navigator,\u00a0electronic warfare officer, flight simulator programmer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2838,6633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coba-alumni","category-coba-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}