{"id":11529,"date":"2011-06-13T01:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T06:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2011-06-13T01:30:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T06:30:24","slug":"the-changing-culture-of-the-military-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/the-changing-culture-of-the-military-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Culture of the Military and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Air Force public affairs article described an officer’s deployment in support of mortuary affairs at Dover<\/a>, a somber and honorable duty.<\/p>\n

The article inadvertently touched on another historical tradition of the US Air Force (or, more accurately, the US Army Air Forces).\u00a0 The author published a photo of her grandfather with his A-20 Havoc <\/em>in World War II:<\/p>\n

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A close up of the plane’s nose art shows a level of frankness, cultural insensitivity, political incorrectness, or whatever term you might choose to use, that was slightly more acceptable at the time and would be unthinkable today:<\/p>\n

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As a point of comparison, the American leadership apologized for the “bomb graffiti” that graced a 2000-lb bomb<\/a>\u00a0on the deck of the USS Enterprise <\/em>in the 1998 bombing of Iraq.\u00a0 (While much was written on the bomb, the phrase “Here’s a Ramadan present” was considered offensive.)<\/p>\n

The picture shouldn’t be too surprising, however.\u00a0 Use your favorite search engine to look up “nose art,” and you’ll find a great many other “interesting” pictures, many unsuitable for family viewing.<\/p>\n

Aspects of the military culture\u00a0might be considered\u00a0“uncouth” by some standards.\u00a0 War is ugly in virtually every respect.<\/p>\n

Photos by USAF\u00a0Capt Amber Millerchip.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Air Force public affairs article described an officer’s deployment in support of mortuary affairs at Dover, a somber and honorable duty. The article inadvertently touched on another historical tradition of the US Air Force (or, more accurately, the US Army Air Forces).\u00a0 The author published a photo of her grandfather with his A-20 Havoc in World War II: A […]<\/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":[1839,134,13,1837,782,5285,52,44,2,1838,80,40],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-20-havoc","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-bomb-graffiti","tag-enterprise","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-nose-art","tag-ramadan","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529","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=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}