{"id":25090,"date":"2013-08-27T00:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T03:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25090"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:59:05","slug":"predator-flies-in-usafa-dining-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/predator-flies-in-usafa-dining-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator Flies in USAFA Dining Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually old news, but it is somewhat an urban legend, as well.<\/p>\n<p>A General Atomics MQ-1 <em>Predator<\/em> has been hung from the ceiling of Mitchell Hall at the US Air Force Academy.\u00a0 Mitchell Hall is the huge dining facility that seats every cadet for every (mandatory) meal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/573834\/air-force-academy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/usafapred.jpg\" width=\"871\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While static displays of aircraft have long been used to highlight the Air Force mission and inspire others to serve, this is probably the most <!--more-->&#8220;up close and personal&#8221; such a display has gotten with cadets.\u00a0 Notably, USAFA has seen an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/academy-tries-to-de-stigmatize-uavs\/\">intentional increase in focus on UAVs<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the Predator is &#8220;sacred.&#8221;\u00a0 While other static displays have been the object of various &#8220;spirit missions&#8221; over the years, the Predator is strictly off-limits.\u00a0 Apparently, someone thought people might be tempted to prank it.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder why they&#8217;d think that?<\/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>This is actually old news, but it is somewhat an urban legend, as well. A General Atomics MQ-1 Predator has been hung from the ceiling of Mitchell Hall at the US Air Force Academy.\u00a0 Mitchell Hall is the huge dining facility that seats every cadet for every (mandatory) meal. While static displays of aircraft have long been used to highlight [&#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":[134,5285,2,2399,1551,352,65],"class_list":["post-25090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-air-force","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-mitchell-hall","tag-mq-1","tag-predator","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090","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=25090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}