{"id":19707,"date":"2012-10-02T01:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T04:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19707"},"modified":"2012-10-02T01:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T04:24:34","slug":"usafa-hosts-forum-on-moral-courage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/02\/usafa-hosts-forum-on-moral-courage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Hosts Forum on Moral Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force Academy recently hosted its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123319949\">annual Falcon Heritage Forum<\/a>, focusing on &#8220;moral courage in the midst of difficult decisions in the active-duty Air Force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is was a great opportunity for cadets to interact with young company grade officers who aren&#8217;t much further ahead of them and where cadets could get a perspective on what these officers deal with on a day to day basis,&#8221; said Cadet 1st Class Nicholas Espinoza, Cadet Wing character officer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having the courage to make hard decisions is <!--more-->not only evident on the battlefield, but off it as well. There is a moral courage that comes with every decision we make, and we wanted to bring the Cadet Wing into that conversation of what it means to have moral courage&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The active duty forum director, Capt Samantha Dickens, made an interesting point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We wanted [to] help [the cadets] realize that the courage they develop throughout their years at the Academy will serve them well in the active duty Air Force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moral courage can be developed and &#8220;practiced,&#8221; in a manner of speaking, and the military academies are excellent locations for that form of training. For example, cadets may face temptations or pressures within the Academy. Regardless of their response &#8212; whether they act with moral courage or not &#8212; they can learn from the experience and be better officers (and better people) as a result.<\/p>\n<p>In simplistic terms, character <em>can <\/em>be &#8220;trained,&#8221; and the US military, of all places, has a stake in the impeccable character of its servicemembers &#8212; which means it <em>needs <\/em>to be in the &#8220;character development&#8221; business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force Academy recently hosted its annual Falcon Heritage Forum, focusing on &#8220;moral courage in the midst of difficult decisions in the active-duty Air Force.&#8221; &#8220;It is was a great opportunity for cadets to interact with young company grade officers who aren&#8217;t much further ahead of them and where cadets could get a perspective on what these officers [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,2043,2,624,3602,3603,65],"class_list":["post-19707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-character","tag-military","tag-moral-courage","tag-nicholas-espinoza","tag-samantha-dickens","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707","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=19707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}