{"id":20853,"date":"2010-10-15T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20853"},"modified":"2010-10-15T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T14:02:27","slug":"ill-be-your-pilot-today-ive-been-shot-in-the-head-we-hope-you-enjoy-your-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20853","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll be your pilot today. I&#8217;ve been shot in the head. We hope you enjoy your flight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly something you don&#8217;t want to hear. But that&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/campaigns\/our_boys\/3181045\/Flight-Lieutenant-Ian-Fortune-tells-passengers-hes-been-shot-in-the-head.html\">Flight Lieutenant Ian Fortune told his passengers<\/a>, mostly wounded British soldiers, over Afghanistan. Ok, that&#8217;s not exactly what he said &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/video\/article300101.ece?vxSiteId=0bc72527-aa8e-4487-a5e8-94aae448c9dd&#038;vxChannel=Sun%20Exclusive&#038;vxClipId=1347_SUN49035&#038;vxBitrate=300\">you can hear him on this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In clips seen for the first time, he is heard calmly telling his passengers: &#8220;Just to let you know, I took a round through my front windscreen which came up and hit me in the head. I&#8217;ve got a bit of a crack and a bleed there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then managed to manuever his aircraft at 120 mph back to the base. That earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly something you don&#8217;t want to hear. But that&#8217;s what Flight Lieutenant Ian Fortune told his &hellip; <a title=\"I&#8217;ll be your pilot today. I&#8217;ve been shot in the head. We hope you enjoy your flight.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20853\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;ll be your pilot today. I&#8217;ve been shot in the head. We hope you enjoy your flight.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}