{"id":22056,"date":"2013-04-08T00:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T03:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22056"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:40:09","slug":"air-force-identifies-pilot-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/air-force-identifies-pilot-killed-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Identifies Pilot Killed in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force identified the F-16 <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/f-16-crashes-in-afghanistan-pilot-killed\/\">pilot killed in Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0last week\u00a0as Capt James Steel, a 2006 US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123343344\">Air Force Academy graduate<\/a> and Shaw Air Force Base pilot.<\/p>\n<p>The F-16 reportedly crashed while on a night final <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20130405\/NEWS\/304050012\">approach to Bagram Air Base<\/a> after his fragged sortie.\u00a0 News reports do not indicate a family, other than his father, retired MajGen Robert Steel.<\/p>\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>The US Air Force identified the F-16 pilot killed in Afghanistan\u00a0last week\u00a0as Capt James Steel, a 2006 US Air Force Academy graduate and Shaw Air Force Base pilot. The F-16 reportedly crashed while on a night final approach to Bagram Air Base after his fragged sortie.\u00a0 News reports do not indicate a family, other than his father, retired MajGen Robert [&#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":[58,134,1763,619,186,5285,3949,2,3950,65],"class_list":["post-22056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-bagram","tag-crash","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-james-steel","tag-military","tag-robert-steel","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22056","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=22056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}