{"id":17285,"date":"2012-04-16T00:09:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T03:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17285"},"modified":"2012-04-16T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:50:09","slug":"air-force-nuke-missile-operators-lose-flight-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/air-force-nuke-missile-operators-lose-flight-suits\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Nuke Missile Operators Lose Flight Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Space Command, the division in charge of US Air Force nuclear missile operations, has declared that its space and missile operators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/04\/ap-air-force-space-command-no-flight-suits-leather-jackets-non-flying-operations-041412\/\">can no longer wear flight suits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Air Force Space Command said Friday that its men and women who aren\u2019t assigned to flying operations will not be allowed to wear flight suits or Air Force leather jackets after Oct. 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So goes the story, once upon a time silo sitters had a unique uniform for <!--more-->sitting at the console of their nuclear duties.\u00a0 In the 1990s, these were replaced by dark blue flight suits.\u00a0 Eventually, these were abandoned in favor of the &#8220;one force&#8221; green flight suit worn by aviators.\u00a0 The leather jackets made famous by pilots were also worn.<\/p>\n<p>On one side of the argument are those who want to build the perception of &#8220;one team,&#8221; independent of career field &#8212; pilot or not.\u00a0 On the other side are those who think flight suits should be for those who fly.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that last argument brings other people into the fight &#8212; like those who operate UAVs, and people who were previously in the aviation career field but now fly a desk.\u00a0 Both are still authorized to wear a flight suit as their duty uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span>: Also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123298140\">AF.mil<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Space Command, the division in charge of US Air Force nuclear missile operations, has declared that its space and missile operators can no longer wear flight suits. Air Force Space Command said Friday that its men and women who aren\u2019t assigned to flying operations will not be allowed to wear flight suits or Air Force leather jackets after [&#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":[134,5285,1187,2,3148,1495,450,53],"class_list":["post-17285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-flight-suit","tag-military","tag-missile-silo","tag-nuclear","tag-space-wings","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285","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=17285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}