{"id":18722,"date":"2012-07-30T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2012-07-30T01:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T04:17:15","slug":"uav-pilots-may-get-distinguished-warfare-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/uav-pilots-may-get-distinguished-warfare-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"UAV Pilots May Get Distinguished Warfare Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post <\/em>writes that drone pilots may soon get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/in-the-loop\/post\/drone-pilots-to-get-medals\/2012\/07\/09\/gJQAF2PhYW_blog.html\">medal tailor-made for their uniforms<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Charles V. Mugno, head of the Army Institute of Heraldry] said most combat decorations require \u201cboots on the ground\u201d in a combat zone, but he noted that \u201cemerging technologies\u201d such as drones and cyber combat missions are now handled by troops far removed from combat.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Pentagon has not formally <!--more-->endorsed the medal, but Mugno\u2019s institute has completed six alternate designs for commission approval.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The discussion continues an ongoing debate about the &#8220;combat status&#8221; of persons controlling weapons over Afghanistan while sitting in the US.\u00a0 UAV operators are, for example, held responsible for the UAV&#8217;s actions in the warzone under negative circumstances&#8230;so why not positive ones?<\/p>\n<p>Still, if they&#8217;re going to create a new medal, they might reconsider the name &#8220;distinguished warfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post writes that drone pilots may soon get a medal tailor-made for their uniforms: [Charles V. Mugno, head of the Army Institute of Heraldry] said most combat decorations require \u201cboots on the ground\u201d in a combat zone, but he noted that \u201cemerging technologies\u201d such as drones and cyber combat missions are now handled by troops far removed from [&#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":[3428,5285,3429,3427,2,53],"class_list":["post-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-charles-mugno","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-heraldry","tag-medal","tag-military","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722","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=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}