{"id":7639,"date":"2022-06-11T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2022-08-30T20:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:29:55","slug":"meet-u-s-army-warrant-officer-candidate-april-mae-ridenour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/2022\/06\/11\/meet-u-s-army-warrant-officer-candidate-april-mae-ridenour\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet U.S. Army Warrant Officer Candidate April-Mae Ridenour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7645 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/Ridenour-I-AM-THE-MISSION-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"813\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/Ridenour-I-AM-THE-MISSION-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/Ridenour-I-AM-THE-MISSION-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/Ridenour-I-AM-THE-MISSION-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/08\/Ridenour-I-AM-THE-MISSION.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meet U.S. Army Warrant Officer Candidate April-Mae Ridenour, the reconnaissance noncommissioned officer assigned to the 32nd Civil Support Team, Maryland National Guard. Ridenour played a vital role in the CST\u2019s  support of  the 2022 Ocean City Air Show as part of the survey section that is responsible for identifying, assessing, and locating potential chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazard threats on the boardwalk.<br><br>\u201cMy individual role is to make sure the team is healthy and that they are prepared to deploy,\u201d said Ridenour. \u201cI am here to ensure that the team members are experts on their equipment and can provide an answer when asked.\u201d<br><br>In addition to Ridenour&#8217;s initial role, she assists in analyzing any collected samples in the mobile lab that is located within ten miles of the incident site. If a CBRNE agent is identified, Ridenour and her team will be able to  assess current or projected consequences, advise on response measures, and assist with appropriate requests for additional follow-on state and federal military forces.<br><br>\u201cIn the event an incident occurs, we typically send a three person team who will deploy to conduct monitoring and collect samples,\u201d stated Ridenour. \u201cOverall there is no specific event we support, if it falls into our mission set we will support it.\u201d<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet U.S. Army Warrant Officer Candidate April-Mae Ridenour, the reconnaissance noncommissioned officer assigned to the 32nd Civil Support Team, Maryland National Guard. Ridenour played a vital role in the CST\u2019s support of the 2022 Ocean City Air Show as part of the survey section that is responsible for identifying, assessing, and locating potential chemical, biological,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/2022\/06\/11\/meet-u-s-army-warrant-officer-candidate-april-mae-ridenour\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":7645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-am-the-mission","category-mos-spotlight","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7647,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/7647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}