{"id":11273,"date":"2011-06-21T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11273"},"modified":"2011-06-20T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T07:29:09","slug":"on-being-a-mother-and-fighter-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/on-being-a-mother-and-fighter-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being a Mother and Fighter Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An official news release features US Air Force Major Jaime Nordin and her attempts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=63980\">balance her life as an F-16 fighter pilot and mother<\/a>.\u00a0 While many people consider being a fighter pilot &#8220;who they are,&#8221; it seems Nordin is in transition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Being a mom and a fighter pilot are both equally demanding, which makes having only 24 hours in a day hard,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But more and more, I&#8217;m becoming a mom, and a fighter pilot is my trade.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone has priorities in life; having children can put a new perspective on things.\u00a0 For those that are curious, the article describes some of the details about female fighter pilots who get pregnant.\u00a0 Nordin was grounded <!--more-->during her pregnancy and recovery, meaning she was out of the F-16 for about\u00a0a year.\u00a0 She was out of the cockpit for so long she had to go through a re-qualification course to get back into an F-16.<\/p>\n<p>Nordin is also married to an F-16 pilot, adding challenges to family life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Nordin] sometimes worries about what will happen while she&#8217;s flying or in the middle of something else and can&#8217;t pick up Caleigh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately, we have friends who are willing to step in and help us out at the drop of a hat,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Several times we&#8217;ve had to cash in on them for help because of mission requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For times when the two pilot parents have temporary deployments at the same time and can&#8217;t bring Caleigh, they have a family care plan in place to ensure their daughter\u2019s care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nordin was previously\u00a0one of three female fighter pilots recently <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/all-female-flight-female-flight-suits-and-female-fighter-pilots\/\">featured by the Air Force News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official news release features US Air Force Major Jaime Nordin and her attempts to balance her life as an F-16 fighter pilot and mother.\u00a0 While many people consider being a fighter pilot &#8220;who they are,&#8221; it seems Nordin is in transition: &#8220;Being a mom and a fighter pilot are both equally demanding, which makes having only 24 hours in [&#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":[134,186,5285,1702,2,339],"class_list":["post-11273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-jaime-nordin","tag-military","tag-pregnant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273","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=11273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}