{"id":21691,"date":"2013-03-07T02:50:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T05:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21691"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:45:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:45:01","slug":"dallas-cowboy-cheerleaders-join-military-leaders-on-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/dallas-cowboy-cheerleaders-join-military-leaders-on-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders Join Military Leaders on Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/dallascheer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"418\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Warning: This official US Navy photo may be considered offensive in some US Air Force units&#8230;<br \/>\nU.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kenneth Abbate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=119413\">official DoD article<\/a> notes the continuing tradition of the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders taking part in USO tours:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have partnered with the USO for the last 34 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Two cheerleaders&#8230;[are] currently on a USO overseas <!--more-->troop entertainment tour with Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld, Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [and] the high-stepping, high-kicking and high-energy ladies show no signs of slowing down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a bit of wry humor to the timing of the tour, as the recent Air Force &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/13\/air-force-welfare-inspection-nets-uso-photos-bible\/\">health and welfare inspection<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/air-force-welfare-sweep-nets-porn-nose-art-religious-books\/\">resulted in<\/a> (at least) 8 USO photos of NFL cheerleaders being removed because they were &#8220;unprofessional&#8221; or &#8220;inappropriate\/offensive.&#8221;\u00a0 (More than 40 references to cheerleaders were found during the inspection, though a few were allowed to remain.) One was pulled specifically because<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cheerleader uniforms are sexually suggestive<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the official news release, some might think the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff disagrees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese women are so professional&#8230;&#8221; Winnefeld said&#8230;\u201cThey are so poised that there was no question in my mind who I wanted to bring on tour with us again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: This official US Navy photo may be considered offensive in some US Air Force units&#8230; U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kenneth Abbate An official DoD article notes the continuing tradition of the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders taking part in USO tours: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have partnered with the USO for the last 34 years&#8230; Two cheerleaders&#8230;[are] [&#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":[134,3745,593,3909,1281,2,36,3233],"class_list":["post-21691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-cheerleaders","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-james-winnefeld","tag-joint-chiefs-of-staff","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-uso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691","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=21691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}