Last week Philadelphia Eagles receiver Chad Hall caught a 9 yard pass and gave the Eagles a first down.<\/p>\n
That single play drew attention across the country — especially from those in the Air Force<\/a>.\u00a0 Chad Hall is a 2008 US Air Force Academy graduate.\u00a0 He was reportedly released by the Air Force in March<\/a> after serving nearly two years of his 5 year military service commitment, apparently as a maintenance officer at Hill Air Force Base.<\/p>\n The military has released professional sports players in the past from their active duty commitments; they may continue their military affiliation with the Reserves.\u00a0 In general, the goal is to gain positive publicity for the Air Force and USAFA, with impact to recruitment.<\/p>\n An article on Hall noting his practices this summer also mentioned a 2010 grad, new 2LT Ben Garland<\/a>.\u00a0 The article left open the possibility that Garland might still decline the pilot slot he currently has.\u00a0 Former Dallas Cowboy and USAFA grad Chad Hennings mentored Garland<\/a> on that topic earlier this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week Philadelphia Eagles receiver Chad Hall caught a 9 yard pass and gave the Eagles a first down. That single play drew attention across the country — especially from those in the Air Force.\u00a0 Chad Hall is a 2008 US Air Force Academy graduate.\u00a0 He was reportedly released by the Air Force in March after serving nearly two years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[594,1090,592,1091,956,1092,2,65],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-ben-garland","tag-chad-hall","tag-chad-hennings","tag-eagles","tag-football","tag-hill-air-force-base","tag-military","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","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=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}