{"id":14282,"date":"2016-10-03T16:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/?p=14282"},"modified":"2021-04-22T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:42:36","slug":"newday-usa-foundation-awards-two-mma-cadets-with-15k-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/14282\/newday-usa-foundation-awards-two-mma-cadets-with-15k-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"NewDay USA Foundation awards two MMA cadets with $15K scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coffey brothers will attend MMA thanks to Marine father\u2019s service, bravery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NewDay USA Foundation presented two Marine Military Academy cadets with a $15,000 scholarship during morning colors Sept. 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President of Scholarship Development Gary Morrison presented sophomore Cody Coffey of Liberty Hill, Texas, and his brother freshman Justin with a scholarship plaque certificate before the MMA Corps of Cadets. The brothers will each receive $15,000 in tuition assistance each school year so they can graduate from MMA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NewDay USA Foundation provides scholarships to children of disabled veterans who wish to attend a military school. The Coffey brothers were eligible and selected for assistance because their father SSgt Clifton Coffey is a 100-percent disabled Marine veteran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSgt Coffey was deployed to Iraq twice and suffered multiple wounds each time protecting his fellow Marines during ambushes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click to read the article of SSgt Coffey in Southern Living,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/home-garden\/building-hope-staff-sgt-clifton-ray-coffey-biography\">http:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/home-garden\/building-hope-staff-sgt-clifton-ray-coffey-biography<\/a>. Click to watch the video,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/home-garden\/ray-coffey-family-video\">http:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/home-garden\/ray-coffey-family-video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coffeybrothers_website.jpg\" alt=\"coffee brothers\" class=\"wp-image-14283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coffeybrothers_website.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coffeybrothers_website-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><figcaption>(Left to right) NewDay USA Foundation Vice President of Scholarship Development Gary Morrison; freshman Justin Cody of Liberty Hill, Texas; sophomore Cody Coffey of Liberty Hill, Texas; Fox Company Drill Instructor MSgt Robert Fracasso; and Superintendent Col R. Glenn Hill.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffey brothers will attend MMA thanks to Marine father\u2019s service, bravery NewDay USA Foundation presented two Marine Military Academy cadets with a $15,000 scholarship during morning colors Sept. 30. Vice President of Scholarship Development Gary Morrison presented sophomore Cody Coffey of Liberty Hill, Texas, and his brother freshman Justin with a scholarship plaque certificate before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14527,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions\/14527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}