{"id":22572,"date":"2013-05-20T02:28:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T05:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22572"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:29:32","slug":"usafa-thunderbirds-replaced-with-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/usafa-thunderbirds-replaced-with-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Thunderbirds Replaced with Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional Thunderbird flyby of the US Air Force Academy graduation was canceled, reportedly due to budget concerns.\u00a0 A group of private aerial demonstration teams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/05\/10\/volunteers-to-do-flyovers-at-air-force-academy-graduation\/\">has volunteered to fill in<\/a> the awkward silence that would otherwise <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/veritable-cornucopia-of-usafa-traditions-on-display\/\">mark the hat-toss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Academy officials said Thursday that more than a dozen pilots have volunteered to fly historical U.S. military aircraft over graduation week events, including the commencement ceremony May 29.<\/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>The traditional Thunderbird flyby of the US Air Force Academy graduation was canceled, reportedly due to budget concerns.\u00a0 A group of private aerial demonstration teams has volunteered to fill in the awkward silence that would otherwise mark the hat-toss. Academy officials said Thursday that more than a dozen pilots have volunteered to fly historical U.S. military aircraft over graduation week [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[134,2,453,40,65],"class_list":["post-22572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-air-force","tag-military","tag-thunderbirds","tag-tradition","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572","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=22572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}