{"id":39697,"date":"2017-01-24T00:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39697"},"modified":"2017-01-25T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:32:40","slug":"president-trump-nominates-heather-wilson-for-secretary-of-the-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/president-trump-nominates-heather-wilson-for-secretary-of-the-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Nominates Heather Wilson for Secretary of the Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-39712 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/heatherwilson2-263x300.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/heatherwilson2-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/heatherwilson2.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/>President Donald Trump has nominated former US Rep Heather Wilson (R-NM) to be the next Secretary of the Air Force. Wilson is a 1982 <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/11\/01\/is-mikey-weinstein-really-a-usafa-honor-graduate\/\">distinguished graduate<\/a> of the US Air Force Academy, was a Rhodes Scholar, and served with the National Security Council before being elected to the House of Representatives.\u00a0 She would be the first USAFA graduate to be Secretary of the Air Force.\u00a0 Compared with other recent Service Secretaries, her foreign policy, elected office, and military service credentials are rather impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Like many of Trump&#8217;s nominees, Wilson&#8217;s name is less well-known. Generally speaking, she appears to\u00a0lean\u00a0conservative as a Republican.\u00a0\u00a0Some reports indicate she is a Methodist, a denomination that runs the spectrum of belief.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Wilson&#8217;s name <em>should<\/em> be familiar: As detailed here, Heather <!--more-->Wilson <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/01\/29\/mrff-activist-to-speak-at-us-air-force-academy\/\">was a speaker<\/a> at the 2010 USAFA National Character and Leadership Symposium &#8212; the same NCLS that invited Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein to speak. Wilson, coincidentally enough, had represented Weinstein&#8217;s district &#8212; and Weinstein, a self-described &#8220;Republican,&#8221; had actively worked for her Democratic opponent.<\/p>\n<p>By one report, Weinstein had tried to get Wilson on his side before his ill-fated lawsuit against USAFA in 2005. Her refusal apparently left him smarting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Heather Wilson took me and my family, and threw us under a bus to bleed by the side of the road,\u201d Weinstein recently told the Albuquerque Tribune&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">As noted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/trump-nominates-former-rep-heather-wilson-to-be-air-force-secretary-1.450373\">Stars and Stripes<\/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>President Donald Trump has nominated former US Rep Heather Wilson (R-NM) to be the next Secretary of the Air Force. Wilson is a 1982 distinguished graduate of the US Air Force Academy, was a Rhodes Scholar, and served with the National Security Council before being elected to the House of Representatives.\u00a0 She would be the first USAFA graduate to be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[78,3546,6066,85,2,5218,7,1528,2799,65],"class_list":["post-39697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-heather-wilson","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-ncls","tag-secretary-of-the-air-force","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697","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=39697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}