{"id":45191,"date":"2020-03-02T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=45191"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T13:05:16","slug":"navy-to-allow-sailors-to-wear-aviator-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/02\/navy-to-allow-sailors-to-wear-aviator-jackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy To Allow Sailors To Wear Aviator Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45853\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/navyjacket2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/navyjacket2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/navyjacket2-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/navyjacket2-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>The US Navy recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.public.navy.mil\/bupers-npc\/reference\/messages\/Documents\/NAVADMINS\/NAV2020\/NAV20004.txt\">announced<\/a> that its Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs) &#8212; those Sailors who operate and maintain the surface fleet of ships &#8212; will be allowed to wear a black leather jacket for &#8220;esprit de corps&#8221; and to identify with a &#8220;long lineage of professional ship drivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet even the Navy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=111811\">official release<\/a> noted the jacket&#8217;s <em>aviator<\/em> connotation: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The institution of the SWO leather jacket\u2014<strong>similar to the aviation bomber jacket<\/strong>\u2014is meant to build esprit de corps and reflect a symbol of the tactical warfighter expertise that come with earning a SWO pin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everybody wants to look like a pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy recently announced that its Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs) &#8212; those Sailors who operate and maintain the surface fleet of ships &#8212; will be allowed to wear a black leather jacket for &#8220;esprit de corps&#8221; and to identify with a &#8220;long lineage of professional ship drivers.&#8221; Yet even the Navy&#8217;s official release noted the jacket&#8217;s aviator connotation:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6822,358,6821,2,36,6823],"class_list":["post-45191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aviator","tag-bomber","tag-jacket","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-surface-warfare-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45191","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=45191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45855,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45191\/revisions\/45855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}