{"id":4047,"date":"2010-03-04T00:35:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2010-03-03T20:29:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T04:29:05","slug":"us-air-force-trains-afghan-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/us-air-force-trains-afghan-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Trains Afghan Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As well as flying and fighting, the US Air Force has also been training the fledgling Afghan national army air corps in the C-27.\u00a0 A group of 8 US Air Force members, pilots and loadmasters, are training a group of 7 Afghans in the hopes that they will soon form their own air force.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/?script=news\/news_show.php&amp;id=45953\">report on the training squadron<\/a> notes that one of the pilots attended US Air Force pilot training, &#8220;spending over a year training in the T-6 trainer at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss.&#8221;\u00a0 US pilots normally fly the T-6 for only a few months, though the Afghan student&#8217;s curriculum was probably geared very specifically to the C-27 he would eventually fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as flying and fighting, the US Air Force has also been training the fledgling Afghan national army air corps in the C-27.\u00a0 A group of 8 US Air Force members, pilots and loadmasters, are training a group of 7 Afghans in the hopes that they will soon form their own air force. The report on the training squadron [&#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":[58,241,2,32,242],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-c-27","tag-military","tag-pilot-training","tag-t-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","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=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}