{"id":45485,"date":"2020-09-29T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=45485"},"modified":"2020-09-29T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:09:18","slug":"air-force-celebrates-officers-career-without-mentioning-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/29\/air-force-celebrates-officers-career-without-mentioning-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Celebrates Officers Career without Mentioning Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare event for an Air Force press release, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/373631\/career-worth-thousand-words\">article<\/a> celebrated the long and storied career of Col Patrick \u201cPhantom\u201d Campbell, without once mentioning the color of his skin.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell had an interesting career \u2013 rejected by the US Air Force Academy initially, he went to the Prep school and then to USAFA. He washed out of pilot training, but then excelled at Navigator training. He was an F-4 EWO in the early 1980s; after a break in service, he eventually returned and would become the Ops Group Commander and finally the 22nd Air Force Director of Operations at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia. He now retires and plans to continue to live a full life, as well as spend more time with Kimberly, his wife of 38 years.<\/p>\n<p>In an era in which status and physical traits seem <!--more-->to take precedence \u2013 like being the first of a certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/373736\/test-pilot-school-welcomes-first-female-flight-test-engineer-commandant\">gender to command a school<\/a>, or the first of a specific skin color <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/first-black-man-nominated-to-lead-air-force-academy-1.636310\">to be USAFA Superintendent<\/a> \u2013 it\u2019s refreshing to see a person celebrated for his merits and accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45487\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/campbell2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" \/><\/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>In a rare event for an Air Force press release, an article celebrated the long and storied career of Col Patrick \u201cPhantom\u201d Campbell, without once mentioning the color of his skin. Campbell had an interesting career \u2013 rejected by the US Air Force Academy initially, he went to the Prep school and then to USAFA. He washed out of pilot [&#8230;]<\/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":[3919,309,5285,2,6869,65,2788],"class_list":["post-45485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-dobbins-air-reserve-base","tag-f-4","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-patrick-campbell","tag-usafa","tag-wso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485","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=45485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45566,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485\/revisions\/45566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}