{"id":3188,"date":"2010-01-26T00:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2013-08-06T01:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T04:24:23","slug":"cadet-wing-commander-inspired-to-persevere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/26\/cadet-wing-commander-inspired-to-persevere\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadet Wing Commander Inspired to Persevere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cadet Wing Commander at the US Air Force Academy is the top military ranking cadet over all cadets.\u00a0 The current semester&#8217;s commander, Cadet 1st Class Andrew Van Timmeren, has an article in the base paper that <a href=\"http:\/\/csmng.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/new-cadet-wing-commander-glad-he-stayed\/\">reveals an interesting history<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cadet 1st Class Andrew Van Timmeren&#8230;almost didn\u2019t stay past his second day of Basic Cadet Training.<\/p>\n<p>Cadet Van Timmeren, then a basic cadet, was ready to pack it in and head home until a chaplain challenged him that if he left then, he would accomplish nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He seems to say his style has <!--more-->gotten a mixed reception:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cadet Van Timmeren said he favors a servant kind of leadership and that he is in the position to serve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So far, he has received positive feedback from other cadets in his new leadership role, though there has been some negative feedback as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m something of a hardball,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m more stringent and by-the-book.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaplains serve many functions, and inspiring cadets or trainees who may feel unable to continue is but one in a plethora of opportunities they have.\u00a0 A few timely and encouraging words from a Chaplain nearly four years ago inspired this cadet to persevere.\u00a0 He&#8217;s now the top cadet in the wing, able to lead and influence\u00a0approximately 4,000 other cadets, and he has\u00a0an assignment to pilot training after graduation.\u00a0 Quite the turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed to VT, and thank God for the support of military Chaplains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cadet Wing Commander at the US Air Force Academy is the top military ranking cadet over all cadets.\u00a0 The current semester&#8217;s commander, Cadet 1st Class Andrew Van Timmeren, has an article in the base paper that reveals an interesting history: Cadet 1st Class Andrew Van Timmeren&#8230;almost didn\u2019t stay past his second day of Basic Cadet Training. Cadet Van Timmeren, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4206,5284,2,65],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-andrew-van-timmeren","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","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=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}