When I was in ROTC, press releases were sent to everyone's local paper. It was a recruiting tool. My name was in my local paper 3-4 times. I was somewhat embarrassed, but my parents loved it!
16 - bingo - "When I was in ROTC, press releases were sent to everyone's local paper. It was a recruiting tool. My name was in my local paper 3-4 times. I was somewhat embarrassed, but my parents loved it!"
Me too, in the reserves and active duty during the war.
"Hometown news releases" and "Letters to Parents" were (and probably still are) routine programs. We used to even have quotas for how many of these things we needed to get in the mill. This "news report" is utter nonsense.