{"id":19268,"date":"2012-08-31T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19268"},"modified":"2012-08-27T02:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:37:48","slug":"a-fathers-advice-on-entering-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/a-fathers-advice-on-entering-the-us-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father&#8217;s Advice on Entering the US Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Dennis Norwood speaks of the recent enlistment of his son, Ben, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkermessenger.com\/view\/full_story\/19906381\/article-Column-by-Dennis-Norwood--A-father-s-advice-as-you-leave-for-the-military\">recounts some of the advice he gave<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Choose your friends wisely. Running with the wrong crowd in the military carries the same consequences as it does in the civilian world \u2014 only the penalties can be much harsher&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Take your training seriously. One day it may <!--more-->save your life. It may seem silly now to have to fold your T-shirts just so or to keep your toothpaste dispenser clean. But it\u2019s the discipline you will need if you ever fold a parachute or maintain a fuel line on an F-16&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the final:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For one last piece of advice, always lean on the Jesus Christ who has loved and saved you. You can be a Christian and serve in the military. It won\u2019t be easy, but you were brought up to know what is expected of a Christian man and you can do it. I know you can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkermessenger.com\/view\/full_story\/19906381\/article-Column-by-Dennis-Norwood--A-father-s-advice-as-you-leave-for-the-military\">his full advice<\/a> to those who enter the US military service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Dennis Norwood speaks of the recent enlistment of his son, Ben, and recounts some of the advice he gave: Choose your friends wisely. Running with the wrong crowd in the military carries the same consequences as it does in the civilian world \u2014 only the penalties can be much harsher&#8230; Take your training seriously. One day it may<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[134,96,3536,2,10],"class_list":["post-19268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-air-force","tag-christian","tag-dennis-norwood","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19268","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=19268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}