{"id":6249,"date":"2010-07-15T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2010-07-14T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T05:07:33","slug":"the-army-air-force-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/the-army-air-force-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Army Air Force, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common &#8220;gotcha&#8221; question among the American military services is <em>Which branch has the most aircraft?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The answer:\u00a0 The US Army.<\/p>\n<p>While most people think the Army Air Forces ceased to exist just after World War II (at the birth of the Air Force), the US Army retains a large air force of its own.\u00a0 Granted, most of its aircraft are rotary (helicopter) rather than fixed wing, but its total number of aviation assets exceeds that of the Air Force, which is generally the assumed answer.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the US Army does retain some fixed wing assets.\u00a0 The Mississippi National Guard &#8212; <em>not<\/em> the <em>Air<\/em> National Guard &#8212; recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodlive.mil\/index.php\/2010\/06\/flying-with-the-armys-air-force\/\">flew out to document some of the Gulf oil spill<\/a> incident.\u00a0 The aircraft was a C-23 Sherpa, and it was flown by the typical Army aviator: a Warrant Officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Army had been planning to acquire the C-27 to replace the C-23, though funding for the Army&#8217;s allocation of C-27s was previously in doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common &#8220;gotcha&#8221; question among the American military services is Which branch has the most aircraft? The answer:\u00a0 The US Army. While most people think the Army Air Forces ceased to exist just after World War II (at the birth of the Air Force), the US Army retains a large air force of its own.\u00a0 Granted, most of its aircraft [&#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":[648,88,725,2,726],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-national-guard","tag-army","tag-c-23b-sherpa","tag-military","tag-warrant-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}