{"id":65835,"date":"2016-05-17T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65835"},"modified":"2016-05-17T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:48:26","slug":"hungry-hungry-airmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65835","title":{"rendered":"Hungry, hungry airmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine_7002 and Chip send us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/05\/17\/airmen-play-hungry-hippos-for-team-building-experience.html\">Fox News<\/a> which reports that 60th Air Mobility Wing public affairs office posted photos of their airmen playing games like a life-sized &#8220;Hungry, hungry Hippos&#8221; for team-building activities day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/2586787\/wingman-day-travis-afb#.VztJ1r5oDOW\">Wingman Day<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAirmen launch into a life-size version of \u2018Hungry Hungry Hippos\u2019 as part of a team building experience during Wingman Day activities,\u201d a caption reads. \u201cThe Wingman Day program provides training, and hands-on participation exercises for Airmen and frontline supervisors to enhance their ability to recognize and effectively intervene with other Airmen in distress, utilizing the PRESS (Prepare, Recognize, Engage, Send, and Sustain) model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wingman Days in the past have included team 5K runs, where airmen are tied together during the race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Silly us. We played like football and baseball for our &#8220;Organized Grab Ass&#8221; days or &#8220;Mandatory Fun Days&#8221;. The article points out;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Workers at the Veterans Affairs administration came under fire last year when a video emerged of them playing a life-size version of \u201cHungry Hungry Hippos\u201d that lasted most of the work day on the taxpayer\u2019s dime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the Air Force actually accomplishes it&#8217;s missions, so they should have a little fun. They don&#8217;t have hundreds of thousands of people waiting in line while they&#8217;re playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine_7002 and Chip send us a link from Fox News which reports that 60th Air Mobility &hellip; <a title=\"Hungry, hungry airmen\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65835\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hungry, hungry airmen<\/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":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65835","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=65835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}