{"id":154835,"date":"2024-03-25T14:18:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=154835"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:27:22","slug":"when-pigs-fly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154835","title":{"rendered":"When Pigs Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154836 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sh2f-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sh2f-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sh2f-500x322.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sh2f-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sh2f-1536x988.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sh2f.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>SH-2F Sea Sprite<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>That time a helo crew dropped greased pigs onto an aircraft carrier<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Claire Barrett<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s faster than a greased apple down a drainpipe? A greased pig, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>In 1986, members of a U.S. Navy helicopter crew stationed aboard the USS America sought to bring a moment of levity to the conclusion of their six-month deployment to the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>With the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy poised to relieve the Kitty Hawk-class super carrier, aircrewman Brian Christoff and his fellow aviators hatched a plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Navy Pranks...Three little pigs visit the USS Kennedy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMJyw7epRec\" width=\"510\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was an Aircrewman\/SAR Swimmer with HS-11 helo squadron,\u201d Christoff wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post. \u201cThe fighter jet jocks got with us and came up with this slant, on an age-old tradition, of releasing a greased pig onto the deck of the relieving ship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2024\/03\/22\/that-time-a-helo-crew-dropped-greased-pigs-onto-an-aircraft-carrier\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gotta keep an eye on those Aircrewman\/SAR Swimmer types, always up to no good. I bet the Air Boss vapor-locked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SH-2F Sea Sprite That time a helo crew dropped greased pigs onto an aircraft carrier By &hellip; <a title=\"When Pigs Fly\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154835\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Pigs Fly<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":154836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407,119,285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-navy","category-search-and-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}