{"id":52692,"date":"2014-06-30T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52692"},"modified":"2014-06-30T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:12:11","slug":"af-secretary-has-no-stomach-for-her-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52692","title":{"rendered":"AF Secretary has no stomach for her job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=52693\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52693\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Deborah-James.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah James\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52693\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Blaine sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/28\/air-force-secretary-gets-sick-flying-thunderbirds\/\">Washington Times<\/a> which reports that Air Force Secretary, Deborah Lee James took a ride with the Air Force Thunderbirds while they were performing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and it turns out that she wasn&#8217;t quite prepared for it;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Tuesday\u2019s F-16 flight did not go as planned in the cockpit for Ms. James, a former House defense staffer, Pentagon official and defense industry executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone got the bright idea to invite her on the airplane,\u201d said a source familiar with the incident. \u201cShe got violently ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[Secretary James said] \u201cWhile at Nellis, I also was fortunate to fly along with \u2018Thunderbird #4\u2019 and actually participate in a scheduled practice with the entire USAF Air Demonstration Team. They are tremendous Ambassadors in Blue, performing in front of more than 100,000 in Oklahoma last weekend.  I also learned to wait to eat lunch until after Thunderbird practice is complete!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaine sends us a link to the Washington Times which reports that Air Force Secretary, Deborah &hellip; <a title=\"AF Secretary has no stomach for her job\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52692\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AF Secretary has no stomach for her job<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52692","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=52692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}