{"id":24744,"date":"2013-08-07T00:02:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T03:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=24744"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:05:41","slug":"air-force-hosts-pilot-training-student-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/air-force-hosts-pilot-training-student-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Hosts Pilot Training Student Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 410px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/browne.jpg\" width=\"840\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vance Air Force Base has posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vance.af.mil\/jsuptjournal\/index.asp\">ongoing pilot training journal<\/a> written by 2Lt S. Tucker Browne.\u00a0 Lt Browne started his training in August of last year, first flying T-6A <em>Texan II<\/em>s and then T-38C <em>Talons<\/em>.\u00a0 His graduation from the year-long course should be soon.<\/p>\n<p>His journal should have some interesting tidbits, including a look into some ongoing pilot traditions, like the solo dunk tank (recounted by <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/one-pilots-training-story\/\">another pilot here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/missionary-aviation-and-pilot-traditions\/\">copied here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday, our class had the privilege of sending one of our own up into the pattern alone. The pilot, 2nd Lt. Latessa Bortner, said it was a really fun experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When she landed, we were ready for the age-old tradition of <!--more-->dunking the solo-student. The rules go, supposedly, that if a solo student avoids the other flight members and make it back to the flight room without getting dunked in the class&#8217;s tank, everyone in the flight owes that person a case of his or her favorite drink.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we made sure we were there when she landed, and it was fun getting to throw her in a big pool against her will. Everyone is excited for their turn to go up alone and get thrown in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The journal could be educational for those interested in a fairly benign look at pilot training.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully no one gets offended&#8230;<\/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>Vance Air Force Base has posted an ongoing pilot training journal written by 2Lt S. Tucker Browne.\u00a0 Lt Browne started his training in August of last year, first flying T-6A Texan IIs and then T-38C Talons.\u00a0 His graduation from the year-long course should be soon. His journal should have some interesting tidbits, including a look into some ongoing pilot traditions, [&#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":[5285,4213,2,4031,757,242,40,4212,2895,351],"class_list":["post-24744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-latessa-bortner","tag-military","tag-solo","tag-t-38","tag-t-6","tag-tradition","tag-tucker-browne","tag-upt","tag-vance-afb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24744","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=24744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}