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BLACKSBURG – On Thursday morning, December 4, the Virginia Tech baseball team, in conjunction with its 19 Ways campaign, served host to its second annual Military Appreciation Breakfast held in Lane Stadium.

Organized by the Tech staff with Colonel Dave Miller, Ph.D., and Major Carrie Cox, more than 50 members of the military arrived on campus for a tour of the stadium and then headed to the sixth floor dining area to be served breakfast by members of the Hokies’ baseball team.

“Today was the culmination of a year-long relationship we have with our corps of cadets,” Tech head baseball coach Patrick Mason said. “Each year, we honor them in the spring with a Military Appreciation game and then this fall, we’ve worked and trained with them on several occasions and this was just another way of saying ‘Thank You’

“Thank you, for everything you do for our campus and community, our baseball team, but also, most importantly, for what you do and have done to protect the freedoms of our country as a whole.”

Click on the tab on the right side of the page to see a photo gallery or click the top image to view a video package of the event. Check out the #HokieHuddle for some highlights, tweets, videos and photo galleries from the military-baseball events held this fall (click the link and scroll to the specified date), which includes an Air Force ROTC baseball workout (Oct. 9), the Hokies hitting the ROTC obstacle course (Nov. 18) and the Hokies challenged by the Armed Forces Special Operations Preparation Team (Nov. 21).

The Military Appreciation Breakfast was the 11th event of the 2014-15 academic year for 19 Ways, an initiative for the program to find 19 ways to help make a difference within the community each academic year.

For more information on the team’s 19 Ways campaign, please visit the Facebook page.

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