{"id":2539,"date":"2009-12-08T00:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T08:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2009-12-07T22:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:10:54","slug":"white-house-staff-swaps-f-22-for-f-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/08\/white-house-staff-swaps-f-22-for-f-15\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Staff Swaps F-22 for F-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; look at a Presidential speech, The Cable, a blog of Foreign Policy magazine, says that White House staffers asked an Air Force squadron to <a href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/12\/02\/exclusive_white_house_aides_insisted_f_22_be_removed_from_obama_speech_venue\">remove its F-22 from President Obama&#8217;s speech location<\/a> and replace it with an F-15.\u00a0 The story was corroborated by an Elmendorf AFB public affairs officer.<\/p>\n<p>The blog reports that some of the local troops who fly and maintain the Raptor &#8220;took offense&#8221; and were bewildered that the White House wouldn&#8217;t want to showcase the Air Force&#8217;s premier front line fighter.<\/p>\n<p>It is\u00a0highly unlikely that Obama personally had anything to do with the decision.\u00a0 Such political &#8220;staging&#8221; matters are frequently made at levels well below the Oval Office (as noted by the article saying <em>aides<\/em> made the request).\u00a0 As the Foreign Policy article shows, though, sometimes the decision to use what might seem like an innocuous stage piece (in this case, two Air Force fighter aircraft) may have a significant backstory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; look at a Presidential speech, The Cable, a blog of Foreign Policy magazine, says that White House staffers asked an Air Force squadron to remove its F-22 from President Obama&#8217;s speech location and replace it with an F-15.\u00a0 The story was corroborated by an Elmendorf AFB public affairs officer. The blog reports that some [&#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":[13,19,2,43,45],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-government","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","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=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}