{"id":5346,"date":"2010-05-17T00:32:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T08:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2010-05-16T21:52:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:52:36","slug":"christian-fighter-pilot-astronaut-speaks-at-usafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/christian-fighter-pilot-astronaut-speaks-at-usafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Fighter Pilot, Astronaut Speaks at USAFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/08\/usafa-grads-fighter-pilots-christians-pilot-shuttle\/\">noted earlier<\/a>, STS-131 pilot LtCol James Dutton was the top 1991 USAFA graduate, flew the F-22 as a test pilot, and is also a Christian and member of OCF.\u00a0 On May 7th Dutton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123204437\">spoke to a dining out of the USAFA Astro department faculty and cadets<\/a>.\u00a0 Col Marty France, the Astro department head, had high praise for Dutton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Col. Jim Dutton is exactly the kind of officer every cadet in this room should aspire to be&#8230;<!--more-->Jim stood out even then as a cadet whom we knew would go on to do good things&#8230; No one who taught in the department back then is the least bit surprised by his success, but all of us are proud of what he&#8217;s done, and I couldn&#8217;t think of a better person to motivate you and tell you about what&#8217;s ahead as you graduate in the next few days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the pending retirement of the shuttle, Dutton will be one of the last to have flown it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted earlier, STS-131 pilot LtCol James Dutton was the top 1991 USAFA graduate, flew the F-22 as a test pilot, and is also a Christian and member of OCF.\u00a0 On May 7th Dutton spoke to a dining out of the USAFA Astro department faculty and cadets.\u00a0 Col Marty France, the Astro department head, had high praise for Dutton: Col. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[249,181,2,21,179,65],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-astronaut","tag-james-dutton","tag-military","tag-nasa","tag-officers-christian-fellowship","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","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=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}