{"id":5381,"date":"2010-05-18T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2010-05-17T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T04:20:15","slug":"f-15c-ends-training-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/f-15c-ends-training-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"F-15C Ends Training, End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/aircraft.htm#F-15\">F-15C <em>Eagle<\/em><\/a>, the US Air Force&#8217;s only dedicated air superiority fighter, has just seen its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tyndall.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123204945\">last class of students graduate<\/a>, at least on the active duty side.\u00a0 The five-man B-course graduated May 14th.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/05\/airforce_last_f15class_051410w\/\">Oregon National Guard will continue<\/a> to train Guard pilots, at least until the Air Force finally retires the Eagle.<\/p>\n<p>Their graduation speaker was retired Brigadier General Steve Ritchie, the only Air Force officer to become an ace in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>The Tyndall B-course was also the scene for <em>American Fighter Pilot <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/reviews.htm#afp\">reviewed here<\/a>), a short-lived &#8220;reality&#8221; series following a trio of students through training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-15C Eagle, the US Air Force&#8217;s only dedicated air superiority fighter, has just seen its last class of students graduate, at least on the active duty side.\u00a0 The five-man B-course graduated May 14th.\u00a0 The Oregon National Guard will continue to train Guard pilots, at least until the Air Force finally retires the Eagle. Their graduation speaker was retired Brigadier [&#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":[159,13,515,309,5285,2,514,516],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-ace","tag-aircraft","tag-f-15c","tag-f-4","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-steve-ritchie","tag-tyndall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","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=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}