{"id":19678,"date":"2012-09-25T02:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T05:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19678"},"modified":"2012-09-25T02:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T05:13:13","slug":"us-troops-still-flying-over-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/us-troops-still-flying-over-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"US Troops Still Flying over Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most think the US military is out of the Iraq business, a recent DoD article serves as a reminder that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=117812\">there are still US troops there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Air Force Lt. Col. Chris Lachance is one of a handful of American airmen working to ensure that Iraqi Air force units at Al Sahra Airfield in Tikrit are getting the level of training they need to protect their skies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Iraqis are flying T-6s, the same aircraft the US Air Force and Navy use for pilot training.\u00a0 The article says 3 Airmen are advising &#8220;more than 800 civilian contracted instructors and fresh Iraqi airmen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most think the US military is out of the Iraq business, a recent DoD article serves as a reminder that there are still US troops there: Air Force Lt. Col. Chris Lachance is one of a handful of American airmen working to ensure that Iraqi Air force units at Al Sahra Airfield in Tikrit are getting the level of [&#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":[3601,5285,52,32],"class_list":["post-19678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-chris-lachance","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-iraq","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678","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=19678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}