{"id":346,"date":"2009-06-26T06:15:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T10:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:16:38","slug":"dramatic-rise-in-service-academy-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/dramatic-rise-in-service-academy-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic Rise in Service Academy Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2009\/06\/ap_service_academies_applications_061609\/\">AP<\/a>, the US military service academies have seen a dramatic rise in applications.\u00a0 The US Naval Academy has received over 15,000 applications for a mere 1,200 slots (and has already received another 8,000 applications for <em>next<\/em> year&#8217;s class).\u00a0 It is possible this is attributable to a poor economy, as the academies offer &#8220;free&#8221; education and a guaranteed job after graduation.\u00a0 The economy has also been cited as a reason for higher retention in the US military as a whole, despite the high deployment rates and ongoing combat operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the AP, the US military service academies have seen a dramatic rise in applications.\u00a0 The US Naval Academy has received over 15,000 applications for a mere 1,200 slots (and has already received another 8,000 applications for next year&#8217;s class).\u00a0 It is possible this is attributable to a poor economy, as the academies offer &#8220;free&#8221; education and a guaranteed [&#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":[2],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}