{"id":23199,"date":"2013-05-30T02:21:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23199"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:28:00","slug":"secaf-do-what-is-right-for-our-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/secaf-do-what-is-right-for-our-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"SecAF: &#8220;Do What is Right for Our Air Force&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, addressing the US Air Force Academy graduating class of 2013, &#8220;implored the cadets&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/academy-grads-are-told-to-do-what-is-right-for-our-air-force-1.223509\">defend the character of the Air Force<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Each of you is responsible for the character of this Air Force, and its reputation,&#8221; Donley said. &#8220;And I therefore charge you to serve with integrity, and by example \u2014 to lead, to say and to do what is right for our Air Force.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Serve with integrity and character.\u00a0 Do the right thing.\u00a0 It seems like the Air Force is encouraging a high moral standard.<\/p>\n<p>Living morally is consistent with Christian officership, but doing the right thing is also consistent with <em>professional<\/em> officership.\u00a0 Unfortunately, a few forget that the <em>right<\/em> choice is not always the <em>easy<\/em> choice.\u00a0 Fortunately, &#8220;right&#8221; normally prevails, even if at some cost.<\/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>Outgoing Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, addressing the US Air Force Academy graduating class of 2013, &#8220;implored the cadets&#8221; to defend the character of the Air Force: &#8220;Each of you is responsible for the character of this Air Force, and its reputation,&#8221; Donley said. &#8220;And I therefore charge you to serve with integrity, and by example \u2014 to [&#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":[134,2043,330,3491,1058,2,198,2799,65],"class_list":["post-23199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-character","tag-graduation","tag-integrity","tag-michael-donley","tag-military","tag-morality","tag-secretary-of-the-air-force","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199","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=23199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}