{"id":10490,"date":"2011-03-29T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10490"},"modified":"2011-03-29T00:20:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T05:20:30","slug":"fighter-pilot-describes-mission-over-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/fighter-pilot-describes-mission-over-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter Pilot Describes Mission over Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, US Air Force Capt. Ryan Thulin, an F-16 pilot stationed in Aviano Air Base, Italy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/26\/world\/africa\/26attack.html\">describes his recent (and first) combat mission<\/a>, over Libya.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, he flew an 8-hour mission out of Italy, refueling at least twice on the way in and the way out.\u00a0 He dropped at least two 500-lb precision weapons on targets in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press picture of Thulin accompanying the article shows him sporting a mustache.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not participating in the fighter pilot tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/fighter-pilot-traditions\/\">growing a mustache while deployed<\/a>, as he&#8217;s flying from his home base.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just coincident timing:\u00a0 the war in Libya occurred during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/fighterpilotspeak.htm#Mustache_March\">Mustache March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, the <em>New York Times <\/em>reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/29\/us\/29military.html\">A-10s and AC-130s have entered the theatre<\/a>, which may represent a shift in strategy from the generally high-altitude precision bombardment that has happened to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the New York Times, US Air Force Capt. Ryan Thulin, an F-16 pilot stationed in Aviano Air Base, Italy, describes his recent (and first) combat mission, over Libya. Of note, he flew an 8-hour mission out of Italy, refueling at least twice on the way in and the way out.\u00a0 He dropped at least two 500-lb precision [&#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":[332,1650,134,13,1630,186,5285,1589,1633,2,1632,1631,40],"class_list":["post-10490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-ac-130","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-aviano-air-base","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-libya","tag-march","tag-military","tag-mustache","tag-ryan-thulin","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490","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=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}