{"id":9486,"date":"2011-02-24T03:26:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T08:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2011-02-21T03:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:28:05","slug":"join-the-navy-become-a-fighter-pilot-then-fly-a-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/join-the-navy-become-a-fighter-pilot-then-fly-a-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Navy, Become a Fighter Pilot, then Fly a Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the US Air Force, aviators <em>generally<\/em> &#8212; though not <em>always<\/em> &#8212; command aviation units.\u00a0 (Aviators do sometimes command non-aviation units, but even those units are often support elements to a flying mission.)<\/p>\n<p>In the Navy, though, command above a certain level requires you to drive a boat.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s what fighter pilots (&#8220;Naval aviators&#8221;) do.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Navy Times<\/em> notes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2011\/02\/navy-new-deep-draft-commands-for-aviators-020711w\/\">new commands have opened up for aviators<\/a> working their way up the ship command system.\u00a0 Apparently, aviators often serve as second-in-command of a carrier, then command a non-carrier vessel, then return to command a carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the article also notes that giving aviators these commands eliminates more slots from the Surface Warfare Officers &#8212; the guys whose actual jobs <em>is<\/em> to command the boats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US Air Force, aviators generally &#8212; though not always &#8212; command aviation units.\u00a0 (Aviators do sometimes command non-aviation units, but even those units are often support elements to a flying mission.) In the Navy, though, command above a certain level requires you to drive a boat.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s what fighter pilots (&#8220;Naval aviators&#8221;) do. The Navy Times notes [&#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":[134,1453,5285,2,36],"class_list":["post-9486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-command","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486","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=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}