{"id":1626,"date":"2009-11-12T00:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T08:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2009-11-11T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T04:54:56","slug":"air-force-fighter-pilot-joins-marine-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/air-force-fighter-pilot-joins-marine-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Fighter Pilot Joins Marine Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of &#8220;non-standard&#8221; flying jobs in the US Air Force.\u00a0 Air Force pilots fly the 747 that is most recognizable as Air Force One; they fly tours with a variety of foreign nations, and they\u00a0also participate in exchange tours with the\u00a0sister services.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Air Force Times<\/em> covers one F-15 pilot who was competitively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2009\/10\/airforce_Marine_exchange_pilot_102310w\/\">selected to fly with the US Marines<\/a>.\u00a0 He will be flying <!--more-->as an aggressor, or someone who imitates the tactics of US adversaries, in order to enhance friendly training.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force pilot, Capt. Ryan Corrigan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuma.usmc.mil\/desertwarrior\/2009\/10\/22\/feature4.html\">noted the stereotypical difference<\/a> between the Air Force and other services&#8217; aviation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marine pilots are typically given a short \u201cwhat-not-to-do\u201d list before flights&#8230;The short list gives Marine pilots more flexibility than the long \u201cto-do\u201d list that Air Force pilots get, Corrigan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This difference in culture between the Navy, of which the Marines are a part, and the Air Force was also noted in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/bookann.htm\">Christian Fighter Pilot is not an Oxymoron<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of &#8220;non-standard&#8221; flying jobs in the US Air Force.\u00a0 Air Force pilots fly the 747 that is most recognizable as Air Force One; they fly tours with a variety of foreign nations, and they\u00a0also participate in exchange tours with the\u00a0sister services. The Air Force Times covers one F-15 pilot who was competitively selected to fly with [&#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],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","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=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}