{"id":11844,"date":"2011-07-14T01:45:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T06:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11844"},"modified":"2011-07-11T01:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T06:36:06","slug":"join-the-air-force-see-the-business-end-of-a-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/join-the-air-force-see-the-business-end-of-a-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Air Force.  See the Business End of a Toilet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not every Air Force (or military) job is glamorous.\u00a0 For example, some military members are deployed to combat areas for one purpose:\u00a0 To escort the third country nationals who drive the sewage truck that empties the latrines, otherwise known as the &#8220;sewage&#8221; sucker, though most people use another &#8220;s&#8221; word.<\/p>\n<p>Along those lines, the <em>Air Force Times <\/em>notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/07\/airforce-latrine-tech-070211w\/\">story of Senior Airman Michael Waite<\/a>.\u00a0 His job?\u00a0 Aircraft lavatory service.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The job works like this: Waite drives up to an aircraft with his lavatory service truck, better known on base as the SWAT (S&#8212;, Water and Trash) truck. A hose is hooked up to a valve on the craft and the human waste <!--more-->is sucked out, while a \u201cblue juice\u201d mix of water and deodorizer is pumped in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best line of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although he said he takes pride in what he does, working with poop is not a long-term career goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SrA Waite has an admirable outlook and realizes every job has its role in the mission.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a level of maturity not often seen even among some more senior military members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every Air Force (or military) job is glamorous.\u00a0 For example, some military members are deployed to combat areas for one purpose:\u00a0 To escort the third country nationals who drive the sewage truck that empties the latrines, otherwise known as the &#8220;sewage&#8221; sucker, though most people use another &#8220;s&#8221; word. Along those lines, the Air Force Times notes the story [&#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":[5285,1921,1920,2],"class_list":["post-11844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-lavatory-service","tag-michael-waite","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844","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=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}