{"id":5843,"date":"2010-06-10T00:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T06:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5843"},"modified":"2010-06-09T23:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:40:42","slug":"alternate-career-path-truck-driver-or-trucking-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/alternate-career-path-truck-driver-or-trucking-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Career Path: Truck Driver.  Or Trucking Chaplain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0running joke in military pilot training is that if it gets too difficult, you can always quit and become a truck driver.\u00a0 In fact, the phone number for truck driving schools is often posted on the flight bulletin boards.\u00a0 While perhaps a little insensitive to those in the truck driving profession, it makes a valid point: no one is <em>making<\/em> you do this.\u00a0 It&#8217;s your choice: do your best, or quit.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, should a pilot training student decide to <!--more-->go that route (and no, it wouldn&#8217;t be that simple), they&#8217;d at least be able to get the spiritual support they needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transportforchrist.org\/\">Transport for Christ<\/a> sponsors Chaplains and mobile Chapels (converted 18-wheeler trailers) not only throughout the US, but also throughout the world.\u00a0 The Chaplains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/article\/20100607\/truck-drivers-find-god-at-mobile-chapel\/pageall.html\">serve, counsel, minister, and, yes, convert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the number for that truck driving school is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0running joke in military pilot training is that if it gets too difficult, you can always quit and become a truck driver.\u00a0 In fact, the phone number for truck driving schools is often posted on the flight bulletin boards.\u00a0 While perhaps a little insensitive to those in the truck driving profession, it makes a valid point: no one is making [&#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":[5284,2,32,610],"class_list":["post-5843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-pilot-training","tag-truck-driving-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843","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=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}