{"id":76244,"date":"2017-11-30T08:54:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76244"},"modified":"2017-11-30T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:54:29","slug":"lt-col-jason-heard-t-bird-commander-canned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76244","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Col. Jason Heard, T-bird commander canned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76245\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76245\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lt.-Col.-Jason-Heard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76245\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/air-force-thunderbirds-commander-removed-over-loss-of-confidence-1.500053\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, the Air Force has fired Lt. Col. Jason Heard, the commander of the Thunderbirds \u2013 officially known as the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, for unknown reasons;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brig. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, commander of the service\u2019s 57th Wing, dismissed Heard, citing a loss of confidence in his \u201cleadership and risk management style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was an incredibly difficult decision to make, but one that is ultimately in the best interests of the Thunderbird team,\u201d she said in the statement. \u201cI am personally grateful for Jason&#8217;s dedication to the 2017 season.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Thunderbirds spokesman insists that the crash in June in Ohio which destroyed a $29 million F-16 aircraft and slightly injured a pilot had nothing to do with the firing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stars &#038; Stripes, the Air Force has fired Lt. Col. Jason Heard, the commander &hellip; <a title=\"Lt. Col. Jason Heard, T-bird commander canned\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76244\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lt. Col. Jason Heard, T-bird commander canned<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76244","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\/76244","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=76244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}