{"id":43204,"date":"2018-05-30T00:15:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43204"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T17:20:29","slug":"comprehensive-airman-fitness-the-spiritual-pillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/30\/comprehensive-airman-fitness-the-spiritual-pillar\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Airman Fitness: The Spiritual Pillar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46137\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/resilience.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/resilience.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/resilience-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/resilience-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe spiritual pillar gives you optimism; it helps you adjust to the adversities of life,\u201d said Lt. Col. Tammy Dotson, 21st Space Wing 21st Mission Support Group deputy commander&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>According to Dotson, Airmen should identify themselves with their beliefs, principles and values&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dotson said her religion <!--more-->and faith in God is what helps her make it through each day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re dealing with separation from family, when you\u2019re dealing with a lot of people and their problems, their issues, their trials and tribulations \u2014 a lot of that weight is heavy because we weep with those that weep and we rejoice with those that rejoice,\u201d Dotson said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in a position of leadership, it\u2019s very taxing&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, spirituality has been my rock and salvation the entire time I\u2019ve been in the military,\u201d Dotson said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/270918\/spirituality-gives-airmen-reason-keep-going\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe spiritual pillar gives you optimism; it helps you adjust to the adversities of life,\u201d said Lt. Col. Tammy Dotson, 21st Space Wing 21st Mission Support Group deputy commander&#8230; According to Dotson, Airmen should identify themselves with their beliefs, principles and values&#8230; Dotson said her religion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2,10,171,1306,6588],"class_list":["post-43204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-spiritual","tag-tammy-dotson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43204","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=43204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46138,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43204\/revisions\/46138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}