{"id":17768,"date":"2012-05-11T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17768"},"modified":"2012-05-13T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T02:58:20","slug":"f-16-pilot-general-welsh-to-be-next-air-force-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/f-16-pilot-general-welsh-to-be-next-air-force-chief-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"F-16 Pilot General Welsh to be Next Air Force Chief of Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

General Mark Welsh, the current commander of USAFE<\/a>, has been nominated by the President<\/a> to become the next Chief of Staff<\/a> of the Air Force.\u00a0 If confirmed, he would represent a return of the fighter pilot to the Chief position, which was filled for the first time by a non-fighter\/bomber pilot with current Chief\u00a0General Norton Schwartz.<\/p>\n

“It’s always a great day to be an Airman … but this one is extra special for me. I came into the Air Force because I was in love with the airplanes; I stayed in because I fell in love with the people,” [Welsh] said. “Being allowed to continue to serve them, our Joint partners, and the nation in this role would be the privilege of a lifetime.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

General Welsh has 3,400 flight hours, primarily in the F-16 and A-10, and many awards — including the Distinguished Flying Cross, twice.<\/p>\n

General Welsh is a 1976 USAFA graduate<\/a> and a former commandant of cadets at the US Air Force Academy.\u00a0 He seems to be universally praised and is extremely well-known for his popular speeches on leadership<\/a>, many of which are on YouTube.<\/p>\n

His nomination has yet to be confirmed by the Senate.\u00a0 Currently, all Air Force nominations have been put on hold<\/a> due to political wrangling over base closure and budget issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General Mark Welsh, the current commander of USAFE, has been nominated by the President to become the next Chief of Staff of the Air Force.\u00a0 If confirmed, he would represent a return of the fighter pilot to the Chief position, which was filled for the first time by a non-fighter\/bomber pilot with current Chief\u00a0General Norton Schwartz. “It’s always a great […]<\/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":[332,2695,186,5285,2284,2440,2,65,2285],"class_list":["post-17768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-mark-welsh","tag-matt-slaydon","tag-military","tag-usafa","tag-usafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768","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=17768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}