{"id":341,"date":"2009-06-11T02:45:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T06:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:31:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:31:53","slug":"upt-planes-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/11\/upt-planes-grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"UPT Planes Grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many logistics functions, like support, aircraft maintenance, and administration\u00a0used to be largely conducted by enlisted Airmen.\u00a0 As a result of budget decreases and manning decisions,\u00a0however, much of these jobs are now\u00a0done by civilian contractors.\u00a0 This adds some complexity to the issue of conducting military operations, as when a labor strike recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/strike-grounds-planes-at-okla-af-base.html?col=1186032310810&#038;wh=wh\">grounded the fleet<\/a> at Vance Air Force Base.\u00a0 (Operations are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2009\/06\/ap_vance_strike_061109\/\">still suspended<\/a> at the base.)<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force isn&#8217;t even a party to the labor conflict, as the dispute is between two external organizations.\u00a0 Still, it is the victim of the work stoppage.<\/p>\n<p>The base even had to bring in augmentees from other bases just to man basic life-saving functions like the Fire Department.\u00a0 Officially, however, the Air Force remains &#8220;neutral&#8221; in the labor dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many logistics functions, like support, aircraft maintenance, and administration\u00a0used to be largely conducted by enlisted Airmen.\u00a0 As a result of budget decreases and manning decisions,\u00a0however, much of these jobs are now\u00a0done by civilian contractors.\u00a0 This adds some complexity to the issue of conducting military operations, as when a labor strike recently grounded the fleet at Vance Air Force Base.\u00a0 (Operations [&#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":[2,10],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}