{"id":2541,"date":"2009-12-08T00:35:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T08:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2009-12-07T22:12:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:12:29","slug":"general-fighter-pilots-jobs-safe-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/08\/general-fighter-pilots-jobs-safe-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"General: Fighter Pilots&#8217; Jobs Safe, for Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gen. David Deptula, Air Force deputy chief of staff for ISR and a strong advocate for UAVs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2009\/12\/military_twidn_special_120309w\/\">recently stated<\/a> that &#8220;we haven\u2019t even seen the horizon yet&#8221; on the last manned tactical aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>While many have forecasted the &#8220;unemployment of the fighter pilot&#8221; as UAVs have become more ubiquitous, Deptula&#8217;s reason for saying fighter pilots have some job security is fairly simple:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no sensor package capable of &#8220;360-degree situational awareness that can process information&#8221; and decide on how to act upon it better than the human brain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article notes that Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said he is &#8220;inclined to believe&#8221; that the F-35 will be the last manned fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gen. David Deptula, Air Force deputy chief of staff for ISR and a strong advocate for UAVs, recently stated that &#8220;we haven\u2019t even seen the horizon yet&#8221; on the last manned tactical aircraft. While many have forecasted the &#8220;unemployment of the fighter pilot&#8221; as UAVs have become more ubiquitous, Deptula&#8217;s reason for saying fighter pilots have some job security [&#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":[13,2,53],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}