{"id":1616,"date":"2009-11-05T00:25:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T07:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:15:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:15:49","slug":"naval-academy-graduates-to-be-non-volunteered-to-subs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/05\/naval-academy-graduates-to-be-non-volunteered-to-subs\/","title":{"rendered":"Naval Academy Graduates to be Non-Volunteered to Subs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is frequently a heated debate over which are better: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/faq2.htm#better\">Air Force or Navy pilots<\/a>, with the corollary comparison of whether the US Air Force Academy or the Naval Academy is the better place to go to become a pilot.<\/p>\n<p>There are legitimate arguments for each side, of course.\u00a0 One of the main points for those seeking to be fighter pilots is the obvious fact of numbers; there are simply more fighter aircraft in the Air Force than there are in the Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s a new point: at least the Air Force doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2009\/10\/navy_nukes_SAT_102409w\/\">force its new officers into submarine duty<\/a>.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That said, the needs of the military&#8211;meaning that the service&#8217;s needs take precedence over personal preferences&#8211;are preeminent in every service, including the Air Force.\u00a0 Traditionally, the career field of missileer (ICBM crewman) has been the least-favored Air Force job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is frequently a heated debate over which are better: Air Force or Navy pilots, with the corollary comparison of whether the US Air Force Academy or the Naval Academy is the better place to go to become a pilot. There are legitimate arguments for each side, of course.\u00a0 One of the main points for those seeking to be fighter [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,2,32,65],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-pilot-training","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","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=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}