{"id":17858,"date":"2020-09-19T14:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T11:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/representative-elaine-luria-earns-merchant-marine-award\/17858\/"},"modified":"2020-09-19T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T11:22:03","slug":"representative-elaine-luria-earns-merchant-marine-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/representative-elaine-luria-earns-merchant-marine-award\/17858\/","title":{"rendered":"Representative Elaine Luria Earns Merchant Marine Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>As a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, Representative Luria is one of the first women to serve her entire military career aboard combatant ships. In her final assignment, she commanded a maritime prepositioning force of 400 sailors. With that knowledge; Representative Luria came to Congress in 2018 as a strong supporter of the maritime industry as a member of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee. The Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee oversees key commercial and military maritime programs and laws.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Coastal Virginia, the maritime industry is integral to our regional economy, national security, and constituents\u2019 livelihoods. As a tireless advocate for the maritime community, it is an honor to receive this award,\u201d said Congresswoman Luria.\u201cAs a 20-year Navy veteran, I know the importance of supporting and advocating for the maritime industry. In Congress, I will continue to be a staunch advocate for the Jones Act and the U.S. maritime industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepresentative Luria has been steadfast in her commitment to this nation, and to the men and women of maritime\u201d said Mike Roberts, President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanmaritimepartnership.com\">American Maritime Partnership<\/a>. \u201cShe has led in Congress on key issues to support the domestic and deep sea U.S. flag fleets, including programs related to shipbuilding, mariners, and vessel operations. It is our honor to recognize Representative Luria with the American Maritime Hero Award, for her dedication to American maritime companies and American mariners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, Representative Luria is one of the first women to serve her entire military career aboard combatant ships. In her final assignment, she commanded a maritime prepositioning force of 400 sailors. With that knowledge; Representative Luria came to Congress in 2018 as a strong supporter of the maritime &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1178,11406,11404,11405,531,423,11403],"class_list":["post-17858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-award","tag-earns","tag-elaine","tag-luria","tag-marine","tag-merchant","tag-representative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/17859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}