{"id":34493,"date":"2013-03-11T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34493"},"modified":"2013-03-11T06:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T10:44:57","slug":"usaf-rpa-airstrike-statistics-vanish-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34493","title":{"rendered":"USAF RPA Airstrike Statistics Vanish \u2013 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update:\u00a0 CENTCOM has now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/u-air-force-stops-reporting-data-afghanistan-drone-084024541.html\">acknowledged that it was responsible<\/a> for the recent decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34473\">remove USAF RPA Airstrike data from AFCENT websites<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 CENTCOM released a statement on Sunday, 10 March 2013, acknowledging that it had removed the data.\u00a0 The stated reason was because the data \u201cwas \u2018disproportionately focused\u2019 on the use of weapons by the remotely piloted aircraft\u201d.\u00a0 Per CENTCOM, most missions are used for reconnaissance; RPA airstrikes are \u201conly 3 percent of sorties\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that explanation makes perfect sense.\u00a0 Those quiet reconnaissance sorties cause just as many problems and raise just as many potentially troubling issues as do RPA airstrike sorties.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that clears things up.\u00a0 Nothing to see here; move along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update:\u00a0 CENTCOM has now acknowledged that it was responsible for the recent decision to remove &hellip; <a title=\"USAF RPA Airstrike Statistics Vanish \u2013 Update\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34493\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USAF RPA Airstrike Statistics Vanish \u2013 Update<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34493","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}