{"id":19379,"date":"2012-09-10T01:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19379"},"modified":"2012-09-10T02:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T05:02:39","slug":"iraqis-being-flying-us-f-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/iraqis-being-flying-us-f-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqis Being Flying US F-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some question the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/23\/world\/middleeast\/stability-in-iraq-threatened-amid-power-struggle.html\">stability<\/a> &#8212; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alarabiya.net\/articles\/2012\/04\/23\/209709.html\">political alliances<\/a> &#8212; of their government back home, a group of Iraqi pilots has become the first to begin training in US F-16s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two Iraqis have joined aspiring fighter pilots from the United States, Singapore, Poland, Denmark, Japan and the Netherlands at the U.S. Air Force&#8217;s international F-16 schoolhouse at Tucson International Airport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A &#8220;senior delegation&#8221; recently visited to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123316440\">assess their students&#8217; progress<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iraq is reportedly expecting to receive F-16s in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some question the stability &#8212; and the political alliances &#8212; of their government back home, a group of Iraqi pilots has become the first to begin training in US F-16s: Two Iraqis have joined aspiring fighter pilots from the United States, Singapore, Poland, Denmark, Japan and the Netherlands at the U.S. Air Force&#8217;s international F-16 schoolhouse at Tucson International [&#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":[134,186,52,2],"class_list":["post-19379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-f-16","tag-iraq","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379","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=19379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}