{"id":27462,"date":"2013-12-18T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T03:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27462"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:09:58","slug":"senate-confirms-new-secretary-of-the-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/18\/senate-confirms-new-secretary-of-the-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms New Secretary of the Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Lee James has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/467724\/senate-confirms-james-as-next-secretary-of-the-air-force.aspx\">confirmed by the US Senate<\/a>, which clears the way for her to be sworn in later this month as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20131213\/NEWS05\/312130004\">newest Secretary of the Air Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOn behalf of the more than 690,000 men and women of the U.S. Air Force, I want to welcome Secretary James to our Air Force family,\u201d Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said in a Dec. 13 statement. \u201cI\u2019m confident that she\u2019ll lead us with the same vision and passion she\u2019s shown throughout her public service and private sector leadership, building on the extraordinary accomplishments of our Acting Secretary Eric Fanning, who has magnificently led our Air Force these last few months.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Acting Secretary Eric Fanning has been <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/secaf-retires-fanning-becomes-acting-secretary\/\">filling in<\/a> since Secretary Donley retired <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/secaf-retires-fanning-becomes-acting-secretary\/\">in June<\/a>.<\/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>Deborah Lee James has been confirmed by the US Senate, which clears the way for her to be sworn in later this month as the newest Secretary of the Air Force. \u201cOn behalf of the more than 690,000 men and women of the U.S. Air Force, I want to welcome Secretary James to our Air Force family,\u201d Chief of Staff [&#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":[134,78,4303,4136,2284,1058,2],"class_list":["post-27462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-congress","tag-deborah-lee-james","tag-eric-fanning","tag-mark-welsh","tag-michael-donley","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27462","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=27462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}