{"id":20519,"date":"2012-12-07T01:29:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T04:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20519"},"modified":"2012-12-09T02:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T05:37:37","slug":"gen-welsh-orders-air-force-health-and-welfare-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/gen-welsh-orders-air-force-health-and-welfare-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Welsh Orders Air Force Health and Welfare Inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh ordered his wing commanders to conduct &#8220;health and welfare inspections&#8221; with the intent of fostering respect and professionalism.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123328720\">Air Force announcement<\/a> was fairly benign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Commanders across the Air Force will conduct health and welfare inspections&#8230;to emphasize an environment of respect, trust and professionalism in the workplace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III tasked commanders&#8230;to examine their work settings and ensure Airmen at all levels consistently apply standards of professionalism and respect across the service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Air Force Times took a more direct approach, saying the target was material that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2012\/12\/air-force-health-welfare-insepctions2-120512\/\">objectif[ies] women<\/a>:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Commanders and supervisors in all corners of the Air Force <!--more-->will conduct a widespread sweep of all work spaces and public areas starting today, looking for pictures, calendars and other materials that objectify women&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of scantily clad women in calendars, posters or in briefing slides have no place in a professional workplace, said Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Stars and Stripes indicated the inspection was for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/air-force\/air-force-orders-search-for-obscene-materials-in-base-work-areas-1.199748\">obscene material<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given some recent events (to be discussed later), combined with quite a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/military-traditions-in-civilian-aviation\/\">few traditions<\/a> that characterize the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/fighter-pilot-traditions\/\">fighter pilot culture<\/a>, it will be interesting to see the full impact\u00a0this has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh ordered his wing commanders to conduct &#8220;health and welfare inspections&#8221; with the intent of fostering respect and professionalism.\u00a0 The Air Force announcement was fairly benign: Commanders across the Air Force will conduct health and welfare inspections&#8230;to emphasize an environment of respect, trust and professionalism in the workplace&#8230; Air Force Chief of Staff [&#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":[134,5285,2284,40],"class_list":["post-20519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-mark-welsh","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519","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=20519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}