{"id":11544,"date":"2011-06-29T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2011-06-20T02:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T07:32:49","slug":"first-us-marine-corps-ea-6b-prowler-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/first-us-marine-corps-ea-6b-prowler-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"First US Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point marked the beginning of the\u00a0end of an era.\u00a0 The first EA-6B <em>Prowler <\/em>ever delivered to the US Marines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/71911\/first-marine-corps-prowler-makes-final-flight\">retired on June 10 off this year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In early 1977, the Marine Corps received its first EA-6B Prowler, tail number 160432 and marked with the number 000&#8230;[at] Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After 34 years of service and more than 11,000 flight hours, 160432 made its final active duty flight June 10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article includes imagery that might be associated with a fighter pilot traditional &#8220;fini flight.&#8221;\u00a0 In this case, two fire trucks created a water arch as the aircraft taxied back for the final time.<\/p>\n<p>What will become of the aircraft?\u00a0 Like many war-weary combat veteran aircraft, it will be memorialized&#8230;on a stick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having flown missions in many areas of the world, the retired Prowler will now become a display at its home base of Cherry Point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The EA-6B is slated to be replaced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/ea-18g-growler-approved-for-full-rate-production\/\">EA-18G <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/ea-18g-growler-approved-for-full-rate-production\/\">Growler<\/a> <\/em>in the US Navy.\u00a0 The Marines have reportedly considered a uniquely equipped F-35 as their replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point marked the beginning of the\u00a0end of an era.\u00a0 The first EA-6B Prowler ever delivered to the US Marines retired on June 10 off this year: In early 1977, the Marine Corps received its first EA-6B Prowler, tail number 160432 and marked with the number 000&#8230;[at] Marine Corps Air Station Cherry [&#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":[1014,1844,5285,1846,1013,149,2,36,1845,40],"class_list":["post-11544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-ea-18g","tag-ea-6","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-fini-flight","tag-growler","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-prowler","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544","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=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}