{"id":11716,"date":"2011-07-05T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2011-07-04T23:54:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T04:54:38","slug":"us-marine-pilots-to-be-lead-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/us-marine-pilots-to-be-lead-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marine Pilots-to-be Lead in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to training timelines, it is not uncommon for new officers to wait up to a year or more for their pilot training course to begin.\u00a0 Sometimes these officers are given other opportunities like the chance to obtain a Masters Degree or attend another professional course.\u00a0 In other instances, they are held in an &#8220;awaiting pilot training&#8221; status, filling a sometimes menial position in another unit.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen new Marines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/06\/marine-future-flight-students-commanding-grunts-062011\/\">took another path<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead, 13 active-duty lieutenants commissioned with aviation contracts are on the ground in Afghanistan, <!--more-->leading infantry platoons with 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines, a Houston-based Reserve unit in need of platoon commanders.<\/p>\n<p>The lieutenants volunteered for the job while still in The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., because there was still a one-year wait for a seat in flight school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some other Marines ended up going\u00a0the same way as other services:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While some lieutenants enrolled in the IOC \u2014 where they were nicknamed \u201csky grunts\u201d \u2014 others have participated in language training and logistics officer training, or have been temporarily assigned to billets across the Corps to \u201cenhance their professional development as Marine officers,\u201d Villiard said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to training timelines, it is not uncommon for new officers to wait up to a year or more for their pilot training course to begin.\u00a0 Sometimes these officers are given other opportunities like the chance to obtain a Masters Degree or attend another professional course.\u00a0 In other instances, they are held in an &#8220;awaiting pilot training&#8221; status, filling 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":[58,5285,149,2,32],"class_list":["post-11716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716","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=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}