{"id":10194,"date":"2011-03-22T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2011-03-21T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T06:22:36","slug":"t-38-passes-50-years-of-air-force-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/t-38-passes-50-years-of-air-force-service\/","title":{"rendered":"T-38 Passes 50 Years of Air Force Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Force article notes that the T-38 <em>Talon<\/em>, the Air Force&#8217;s primary jet trainer, has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123247461\">passed 50 years of service<\/a>.\u00a0 To put that in perspective, the Air Force was only 14 years old, the Korean armistice wasn&#8217;t even a decade old, and most people probably didn&#8217;t know where Vietnam was yet.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force has indicated it will eventually begin an official <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/air-force-looking-to-replace-t-38s\/\">search for a replacement trainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#T-38\">T-38<\/a> isn&#8217;t the oldest aircraft in the inventory.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/information\/factsheets\/factsheet.asp?id=83\">B-52<\/a> is approaching 60 years of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Force article notes that the T-38 Talon, the Air Force&#8217;s primary jet trainer, has just passed 50 years of service.\u00a0 To put that in perspective, the Air Force was only 14 years old, the Korean armistice wasn&#8217;t even a decade old, and most people probably didn&#8217;t know where Vietnam was yet. The Air Force has indicated it will [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,13,5285,2,32,757],"class_list":["post-10194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-pilot-training","tag-t-38"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}