{"id":25683,"date":"2013-09-27T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25683"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:43:06","slug":"senator-wife-of-a-10-pilot-blocks-nominee-over-a-10-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/senator-wife-of-a-10-pilot-blocks-nominee-over-a-10-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator, Wife of A-10 Pilot, Blocks Nominee over A-10 Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On her website, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) buttresses her national defense credentials by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayotte.senate.gov\/?p=issue&amp;id=6\">noting she was a military spouse<\/a> of an A-10 pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Air Force has basically said it wants to get rid of the A-10 (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/19\/a-10-on-the-chopping-block-again\/\">again<\/a>), Senator Ayotte has put a &#8220;hold&#8221; on the nomination of Ms. Deborah Lee James to the position of Secretary of the Air Force:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She&#8230;views this as a readiness issue. Until we have <!--more-->a replacement for the A-10, why would the [Air Force] try to eliminate it? She isn\u2019t necessarily saying we must retain the A-10, but wants to ensure there isn\u2019t a capability gap that could result in lost American lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The A-10 conversation has come and gone for decades.\u00a0 It is interesting, though, to see a Senator with a personal perspective take a stand on the issue.<\/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>On her website, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) buttresses her national defense credentials by noting she was a military spouse of an A-10 pilot. Now that the Air Force has basically said it wants to get rid of the A-10 (again), Senator Ayotte has put a &#8220;hold&#8221; on the nomination of Ms. Deborah Lee James to the position of Secretary of [&#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":[332,134,4303,5285,4302,2],"class_list":["post-25683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-air-force","tag-deborah-lee-james","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-kelly-ayotte","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683","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=25683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}