{"id":13339,"date":"2011-09-23T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13339"},"modified":"2011-09-21T23:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:51:13","slug":"general-uav-pilots-will-outnumber-all-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/general-uav-pilots-will-outnumber-all-others\/","title":{"rendered":"General: UAV Pilots will Outnumber All Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Edward Rice, commander of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command, has made (the foreseeable) statement that UAV pilots will someday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/09\/air-force-afa-uav-pilots-will-eventually-outnumber-091911w\/\">outnumber all other pilots<\/a> in the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the birth of the nuclear age foretold the end of the fighter pilot era, and the demise of the dedicated close air support aircraft has been predicted (and proven false) repeatedly.\u00a0 The future is anything but entirely certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Edward Rice, commander of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command, has made (the foreseeable) statement that UAV pilots will someday outnumber all other pilots in the Air Force. Of course, the birth of the nuclear age foretold the end of the fighter pilot era, and the demise of the dedicated close air support aircraft has been predicted [&#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":[2033,2032,5285,53],"class_list":["post-13339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aetc","tag-edward-rice","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339","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=13339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}