{"id":13384,"date":"2011-09-26T01:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T06:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13384"},"modified":"2011-09-26T01:25:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T06:25:05","slug":"usafa-cadet-wing-to-shrink-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/usafa-cadet-wing-to-shrink-again\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Cadet Wing to Shrink. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/af-academy-shrinking-cadet-corps.html\">Military.com article<\/a> renews the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/air-force-to-reduce-officers-usafa-cadets\/\">prior discussion<\/a> about the US Air Force Academy&#8217;s plan to reduce its cadet wing by about 10%, down to about 4,000 from its current strength of about 4,400.<\/p>\n<p>Since USAFA was first authorized 40 cadet squadrons and a size of about 4400 cadets in the late 1960s, it has occasionally dipped and re-grown.\u00a0 For example, four squadrons (37-40) were deactivated in 1999 when the wing downsized; they were reactivated in 2006 when the wing was reauthorized the higher number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Military.com article renews the prior discussion about the US Air Force Academy&#8217;s plan to reduce its cadet wing by about 10%, down to about 4,000 from its current strength of about 4,400. Since USAFA was first authorized 40 cadet squadrons and a size of about 4400 cadets in the late 1960s, it has occasionally dipped and re-grown.\u00a0 For [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[134,2,65],"class_list":["post-13384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-air-force","tag-military","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13384","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=13384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}