{"id":19037,"date":"2012-08-15T02:17:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19037"},"modified":"2012-08-15T02:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T05:17:33","slug":"general-welsh-becomes-20th-chief-of-staff-of-the-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/general-welsh-becomes-20th-chief-of-staff-of-the-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"General Welsh becomes 20th Chief of Staff of the Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Mark Welsh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123313559\">became the 20th Chief of Staff of the Air Force<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>While he is an immensely popular General already, the video and photos of the ceremony in which he became the chief have inspired a slew of responses <a href=\"http:\/\/defensetech.org\/2008\/09\/18\/new-af-dress-coat-left-flapping-in-the-wind\/\">with one question<\/a> more indicative of a high school prom than a military event:<\/p>\n<p>What in the <em>world <\/em>was the General wearing?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/welshuni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is reminiscent of the Hap Arnold uniform <a href=\"http:\/\/defensetech.org\/2008\/09\/18\/new-af-dress-coat-left-flapping-in-the-wind\/\">designed a few years ago<\/a> &#8212; which was shelved.\u00a0 The odd uniform had some commenters nervous that (yet another) Air Force uniform change was on its way, but, to this point, that does not appear to be the case.\u00a0 If that&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/new-chiefs-religion-his-first-issue\/\">first &#8220;issue&#8221;<\/a> the new Chief has, it can&#8217;t be that bad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Mark Welsh became the 20th Chief of Staff of the Air Force last week. While he is an immensely popular General already, the video and photos of the ceremony in which he became the chief have inspired a slew of responses with one question more indicative of a high school prom than a military event: What in the world [&#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":[134,2695,2284,2,1170],"class_list":["post-19037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-mark-welsh","tag-military","tag-uniform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19037","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=19037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}