{"id":78723,"date":"2018-04-06T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T11:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78723"},"modified":"2018-04-06T07:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T11:57:31","slug":"maj-stephen-cajun-del-bagno-af-thunderbirds-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78723","title":{"rendered":"Maj. Stephen &#8220;Cajun&#8221; Del Bagno; AF Thunderbirds pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78724\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78724\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Maj.-Stephen-Del-Bagno-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Maj.-Stephen-Del-Bagno-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Maj.-Stephen-Del-Bagno.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Maj.-Stephen-Del-Bagno-266x333.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AFThunderbirds\/posts\/10156248112754246\">Air Force Thunderbirds&#8217; Facebook page<\/a> which identifies the pilot killed the other day in a crash as Major Stephen &#8220;Cajun&#8221; Del Bagno;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron Slot Pilot Thunderbird 4, Maj. Stephen Del Bagno, was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed over the Nevada Test and Training Range April 4, 2018 at approximately 10:30 a.m. during a routine aerial demonstration training flight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are mourning the loss of Major Del Bagno,&#8221; said Brig. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, 57th Wing Commander. &#8220;He was an integral part of our team and our hearts are heavy with his loss. We ask everyone to provide his family and friends the space to heal during this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to the Air Force Thunderbirds&#8217; Facebook page which identifies the pilot &hellip; <a title=\"Maj. Stephen &#8220;Cajun&#8221; Del Bagno; AF Thunderbirds pilot\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78723\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maj. Stephen &#8220;Cajun&#8221; Del Bagno; AF Thunderbirds pilot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78723","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\/78723","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=78723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}