{"id":252,"date":"2008-11-10T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:17:07","slug":"raptor-lieutenants-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/raptor-lieutenants-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptor Lieutenants Graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While one UPT graduate became the first <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=248\">assigned<\/a> directly to a Predator, the first class of pilot training students assigned directly to Raptors (after a short detour in F-16s) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2008\/11\/airforce_f22_students_111008w\/\">graduated<\/a> from the F-22 basic course.<\/p>\n<p>Like the much cheaper and rugged A-10, there are no 2-seat F-22s; unlike the $30 million F-16, when new pilots climb into the $140 million Raptor for the first time, they do so solo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While one UPT graduate became the first assigned directly to a Predator, the first class of pilot training students assigned directly to Raptors (after a short detour in F-16s) has graduated from the F-22 basic course. Like the much cheaper and rugged A-10, there are no 2-seat F-22s; unlike the $30 million F-16, when new pilots climb into the $140 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2,32],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}