{"id":29469,"date":"2025-01-01T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dci.org\/?post_type=hall-of-fame&#038;p=29469"},"modified":"2025-01-01T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:04:47","slug":"jeff_sacktig","status":"publish","type":"hall-of-fame","link":"https:\/\/www.dci.org\/hall-of-fame\/jeff_sacktig\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Sacktig"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"29469\" class=\"elementor elementor-29469\" data-elementor-post-type=\"hall-of-fame\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9c9f78 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e9c9f78\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0ec6e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d0ec6e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For two decades, Jeff Sacktig has been the brain behind the complex visual formations that the Cadets bring to the football field each summer.<\/p><p>An East Coast native growing up in a family of drum corps performers, Sacktig began his career at the young age of 9 in the very same group (The St. Mathias Blue Max) that his father marched with in the 1940s. 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