{"id":35647,"date":"2016-08-01T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35647"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:13:12","slug":"marine-f-18-crashes-in-california-pilot-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/marine-f-18-crashes-in-california-pilot-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine F-18 Crashes in California, Pilot Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35648 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/norton.jpg\" alt=\"norton\" width=\"257\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/norton.jpg 433w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/norton-284x300.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/>The US Marine Corps reported that Maj. Richard &#8220;Stranger&#8221; Norton died last week when his F\/A-18C Hornet crashed in southern California. His unit was reportedly in training for an upcoming deployment. The news releases called for prayers for his family without further detail.<\/p>\n<p>Articles reporting on the crash highlighted the Marine Corps&#8217; concern that their pilots aren&#8217;t receiving sufficient training hours due to budget constraints, causing them to lose &#8220;proficiency,&#8221; though not technically be unsafe.<\/p>\n<p>Though often taken for granted, <!--more-->aviation remains a dangerous profession, in both combat and in training.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/navy\/marine-pilot-killed-in-jet-crash-in-california-1.421549\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/07\/30\/hornet-marine-crash\/87795184\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a>, and local <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/marine-killed-in-jet-crash-near-twentynine-palms-idd-as-arcadia-man\/1450283\/\">news reporting<\/a>.<\/span><\/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>The US Marine Corps reported that Maj. Richard &#8220;Stranger&#8221; Norton died last week when his F\/A-18C Hornet crashed in southern California. His unit was reportedly in training for an upcoming deployment. The news releases called for prayers for his family without further detail. Articles reporting on the crash highlighted the Marine Corps&#8217; concern that their pilots aren&#8217;t receiving sufficient training [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[841,5285,1793,149,2,5693],"class_list":["post-35647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fa-18","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-hornet","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-stranger-norton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35647","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=35647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}