{"id":1983,"date":"2020-01-06T17:18:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T22:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technologies\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=1983"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:51:10","slug":"episode-10-melissa-ringhisen","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technology\/podcast\/episode-10-melissa-ringhisen\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 10 | Melissa Ringhisen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lieutenant Colonel Melissa Ringhisen graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1999 with a Bachelors of Science in International Relations and commissioned into the Military Intelligence Corps.&nbsp; She has served in Army units including: 501<sup>st<\/sup> Military Intelligence Brigade in the Republic of Korea; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, GA; and 10<sup>th<\/sup> Mountain Division (Light Infantry) at Fort Drum, NY.&nbsp; In addition, she has deployed once to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and once to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.&nbsp; While deployed, Lieutenant Colonel Ringhisen provided intelligence support for over 500 missions each in Baghdad and throughout Afghanistan and coordinated all contracting and sustainment for a FOB of 2000 Soldiers located over 20km from the main resupply hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2007, Lieutenant Colonel Ringhisen was selected to attend the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University prior to assuming a position as an instructor in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy.&nbsp; Upon completion of her Masters degree, Lieutenant Colonel Ringhisen taught International Relations and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at West Point for two years.&nbsp; She also coordinated and supervised the international academic scholarship program for the United States Military Academy which allows cadets to apply for Rhodes, Marshall and other international scholarships.&nbsp; She is currently the first female Chair of the Department of Military Science and Professor of Military Science at Wake Forest University and Winston Salem State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most importantly, Lieutenant Colonel Ringhisen is the mother of Patrick and Trevor Ringhisen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieutenant Colonel Melissa Ringhisen graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1999 with a Bachelors of Science in International Relations and commissioned into the Military Intelligence Corps.  She has served in Army units including: 501st Military Intelligence Brigade in the Republic of Korea; 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, GA; and 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) at Fort Drum, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1980,"parent":0,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/1983\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}