{"id":18615,"date":"2012-07-18T00:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18615"},"modified":"2012-07-18T01:10:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T04:10:35","slug":"air-force-chief-of-staff-gets-hosed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/air-force-chief-of-staff-gets-hosed\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Chief of Staff Gets Hosed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Norton Schwartz recently took his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123309943\">final flight in the US Air Force<\/a>, known traditionally as a &#8220;fini flight,&#8221; and he was greeted in the traditional manner, by his wife and a fire hose:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/csaffini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fini flights&#8221; have sometimes become common place, even occurring as a pilot moves from one flying assignment to another in the same airframe.\u00a0 There is something special, though, to a <em>true <\/em>fini flight that caps a nearly four decade career.<\/p>\n<p>General Schwartz is scheduled to retire later this year.\u00a0 General Mark Welsh has been <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/f-16-pilot-general-welsh-to-be-next-air-force-chief-of-staff\/\">nominated to replace him<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Norton Schwartz recently took his final flight in the US Air Force, known traditionally as a &#8220;fini flight,&#8221; and he was greeted in the traditional manner, by his wife and a fire hose: &#8220;Fini flights&#8221; have sometimes become common place, even occurring as a pilot moves from one flying assignment to another in the same airframe.\u00a0 There is something [&#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":[134,2695,5285,2284,2,497,40],"class_list":["post-18615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-mark-welsh","tag-military","tag-norton-schwartz","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615","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=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}