{"id":6241,"date":"2010-07-13T00:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T06:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2010-07-12T23:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T05:40:19","slug":"combat-from-a-computer-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/combat-from-a-computer-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Combat from a Computer Console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Houston Chronicle<\/em>, via Military.com, has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/fighting-a-real-war-from-virtual-cockpit.html\">article on Major Jon Stiles<\/a>, a US Air Force Predator operator who flies out of Houston for the Texas Air National Guard.\u00a0 The aircraft he controls are flying over Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>As similar articles have noted in the past, UAV\/RPA operators certainly do not experience the same &#8220;combat&#8221; conditions as troops on the ground or even the aviators directly overhead.\u00a0 That said, their actions can still have life and death impacts &#8212; immediately visible on the screen &#8212; as well as strategic implications.\u00a0 There is certainly pressure and stress, though perhaps in a way not yet fully comprehended by the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Chronicle, via Military.com, has an article on Major Jon Stiles, a US Air Force Predator operator who flies out of Houston for the Texas Air National Guard.\u00a0 The aircraft he controls are flying over Afghanistan and Iraq. As similar articles have noted in the past, UAV\/RPA operators certainly do not experience the same &#8220;combat&#8221; conditions as troops on [&#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":[58,722,52,720,2,352,721,53],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-houston","tag-iraq","tag-jon-stiles","tag-military","tag-predator","tag-texas-air-national-guard","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","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=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}