{"id":10994,"date":"2011-04-29T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10994"},"modified":"2011-04-30T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T17:52:17","slug":"usaf-f-16-fighter-pilot-killed-in-afganistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/usaf-f-16-fighter-pilot-killed-in-afganistan\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF F-16 Fighter Pilot Killed in Afganistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123253781\">USAF Academy press release<\/a> confirming the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/usafa-professor-killed-in-afghanistan\/\">death of Maj Phil Ambard<\/a>, an assistant professor, the Air Force also released the names of the others killed during a gunman&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/04\/air-force-leaders-say-airmen-killed-in-afghanistan-shooting-042811w\/\">Among them<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/2011\/04\/28\/1833812\/anchorage-based-airman-killed.html\">Maj David Brodeur<\/a>, a 1999 USAF Academy graduate and F-16 pilot.\u00a0 Brodeur wasn&#8217;t in Afghanistan flying the F-16, however.\u00a0 He was apparently part of a unit training Afghan pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Maj Ambard leaves behind a wife and five children, four of whom have followed him into military service (his daughter just returned from deployment).\u00a0 Maj Brodeur is survived by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20110427\/NEWS\/110429698\">wife and two children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span><\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=14455\">Official military release<\/a> on those killed in the attack, indicating LtCol Frank Bryant\u00a0was also an F-16 pilot killed in the attack.\u00a0 Maj. Jeffrey\u00a0Ausborn was also killed; he\u00a0was a T-6 pilot, though his primary weapons system is unknown.\u00a0 The military released an\u00a0additional report intended to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/69595\/preliminary-investigation-findings-attack-north-kaia\">dispel inaccurate press reporting<\/a> on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the USAF Academy press release confirming the death of Maj Phil Ambard, an assistant professor, the Air Force also released the names of the others killed during a gunman&#8217;s attack. Among them was Maj David Brodeur, a 1999 USAF Academy graduate and F-16 pilot.\u00a0 Brodeur wasn&#8217;t in Afghanistan flying the F-16, however.\u00a0 He was apparently part of a [&#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":[58,1733,186,5285,2,1731,65],"class_list":["post-10994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-david-brodeur","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-phil-ambard","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994","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=10994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}