{"id":7583,"date":"2010-10-12T00:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T06:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:49:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T01:49:45","slug":"new-air-force-motto-aim-high-fly-fight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/new-air-force-motto-aim-high-fly-fight-win\/","title":{"rendered":"New Air Force Motto: Aim High&#8230;Fly-Fight-Win."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123225546\">official release<\/a>, the Air Force has adopted the two most common phrases associated with its history as its new motto:\u00a0<em><strong> Aim High&#8230;Fly-Fight-Win<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An enduring statement of Airmen&#8217;s pride in their service, the motto is a two-part expression &#8212; a call to action, with a response of commitment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The call and the response are two sides of the same coin,&#8221; said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz. &#8220;Airmen indicated &#8216;Aim High&#8217; and the response &#8216;Fly-Fight-Win&#8217; as indicative of their enduring commitment to do just that in defense of our nation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The phrase is supposed to be a motto, not a recruiting slogan (for the Marines, think <em>Semper Fi<\/em> as opposed to <em>The Few, The Proud<\/em>).\u00a0 Comments on the official Air Force site lean heavily toward the negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an official release, the Air Force has adopted the two most common phrases associated with its history as its new motto:\u00a0 Aim High&#8230;Fly-Fight-Win. An enduring statement of Airmen&#8217;s pride in their service, the motto is a two-part expression &#8212; a call to action, with a response of commitment. &#8220;The call and the response are two sides of the [&#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":[134,2,879,497],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-military","tag-motto","tag-norton-schwartz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","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=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}