{"id":7311,"date":"2010-09-23T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2010-09-19T23:41:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T05:41:44","slug":"air-force-birthday-re-inspires-age-old-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/air-force-birthday-re-inspires-age-old-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Birthday Re-Inspires Age Old Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force celebrated its birthday on 18 September; the &#8220;celebration&#8221; inspired some to repeat the frequently asked question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/on-af-bday-will-pilots-be-obsolete.html\">Are pilots becoming obsolete?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But that specter of obsolescence is beginning to haunt some of the most tech-savvy men and women in America \u2013 Air Force pilots \u2013 as the service looks toward an unmanned air fleet capable of any and every kind of combat and support role, from close air support to cargo and refueling; a fleet \u201csmart\u201d enough to work together, even \u201cswarming\u201d to carry out tactical and strategic missions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/on-af-bday-will-pilots-be-obsolete.html\">Military.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force celebrated its birthday on 18 September; the &#8220;celebration&#8221; inspired some to repeat the frequently asked question: Are pilots becoming obsolete? But that specter of obsolescence is beginning to haunt some of the most tech-savvy men and women in America \u2013 Air Force pilots \u2013 as the service looks toward an unmanned air fleet capable of any and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,5285,2,53],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311","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=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}