{"id":58169,"date":"2015-02-09T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58169"},"modified":"2015-02-09T12:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:04:20","slug":"air-force-extends-basic-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58169","title":{"rendered":"Air Force extends Basic Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son graduated basic at Lackland in six weeks back in 2001. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/air-force\/air-force-launches-a-big-change-in-basic-training-1.328448\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, the Air Force extended Basic Training to seven and a half weeks during the war against terror, and now they&#8217;ve extended it another five days to train recruits on &#8220;character development to raise awareness about sexual misconduct&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;Capstone,&#8221; as it&#8217;s called, will emphasize core values and skills the Air Force believes airmen will need in their personal lives and careers. It is part of a makeover in basic training prompted by a scandal at Lackland that sparked an Air Force investigation and congressional hearings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is truly revolutionary, what we&#8217;re doing,&#8221; said Col. Michele Edmondson, commander of the 737th Training Group at Lackland, the home of Air Force basic training. &#8220;It&#8217;s a totally different form of learning for these airmen, it is an investment in their future as airmen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s all well and good, but how are they going to train their field grade and flag officers? Those are the folks that we read about in the news who have a problem with sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chock Block for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son graduated basic at Lackland in six weeks back in 2001. According to Stars &#038; &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force extends Basic Training\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58169\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force extends Basic Training<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58169","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\/58169","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=58169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}