{"id":61780,"date":"2015-09-10T09:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61780"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T13:55:29","slug":"hawg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61780","title":{"rendered":"Hawg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video of the A-10 Thunderbolt (Warthog) and the crews that fly the irreplaceable aircraft in close air support for ground troops as their primary mission started going around the internet this week, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/a-10-hawgs-2015-09\">We Are The Mighty<\/a>, the same folks who brought you The Duffel Blog.<\/p>\n<p>The video was reportedly created by the Air Force&#8217;s combat camera units, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that the video isn&#8217;t approved by the Air Force. It&#8217;s 22 minutes long, but well worth the time to watch. People talk about inter-service rivalries, but this lays that myth to rest &#8211; the A-10 crews fly and fight for the Army and Marines on the ground, and now those grunts will eventually save the A-10 from the Air Force brass. The video does a real good job of explaining the relationship between the pilots and the grunts;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_L_TjXXx7eQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video of the A-10 Thunderbolt (Warthog) and the crews that fly the irreplaceable aircraft in &hellip; <a title=\"Hawg\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61780\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hawg<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61780","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\/61780","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=61780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}