{"id":183268,"date":"2015-01-10T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/10\/im-wondering-who-has-call-sign-rainbow-dash\/"},"modified":"2015-01-10T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T03:43:00","slug":"im-wondering-who-has-call-sign-rainbow-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/10\/im-wondering-who-has-call-sign-rainbow-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Wondering who has Call-Sign Rainbow Dash\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XxGfgoj.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XxGfgoj.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a>To quote the great Anna Russell, &#8220;I&#8217;m not making this up, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the USAF <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/war-is-boring\/the-air-force-has-a-brony-squadron-1ce5ba1c074b\">has a Brony squadron<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Earlier this month, <a data-href=\"http:\/\/www.equestriadaily.com\/2013\/07\/nightly-roundup-703.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.equestriadaily.com\/2013\/07\/nightly-roundup-703.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">word<\/a> <a data-href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2013\/07\/air_force_bronies_can_bomb_your_if_you_mock_them.php\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2013\/07\/air_force_bronies_can_bomb_your_if_you_mock_them.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit the Internet<\/a> that an Air Force unit training to fly America\u2019s <a data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/war-is-boring\/f59db16282ca\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/war-is-boring\/f59db16282ca\">most advanced military aircraft<\/a> are wearing a patch inspired by the television show <i>My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic<\/i>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Now the Air Force has confirmed it: bronies are flying jets.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe  train world-class pilots who will go on to defend our great nation,\u201d  1st Lt. Tom Barger, a public affairs officer at Vance Air Force Base in  Oklahoma, tells War is Boring. \u201cFostering camaraderie, morale and unity  on a regular basis and through small means\u200a\u2014\u200alike a tastefully humorous  patch\u200a\u2014\u200aenhances our ability to complete the mission when working as a  team is essential.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The pink and purple patch\u200a\u2014\u200afirst spotted by <i>My Little Pony<\/i> fan site <a data-href=\"http:\/\/www.equestriadaily.com\/2013\/07\/nightly-roundup-703.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.equestriadaily.com\/2013\/07\/nightly-roundup-703.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Equestria Daily<\/a>\u200a \u2014\u200aand worn by 24 flight students from Joint Undergraduate Specialized  Pilot Class 14-05, references the cable cartoon show about a team of  magical ponies. Although criticized by some as a cynical bid to get  children to purchase plastic pony products (it\u2019s a reboot from the  1980s), the show\u200a\u2014\u200awhich airs weekday afternoons on the Hub  Network\u200a\u2014\u200abecame a cult phenomenon that\u2019s now spread to the armed  forces.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My son is a Brony, and he was stoked about this.<\/p>\n<p>I still do not get the whole &#8220;Brony&#8221; thing. <\/p>\n<p>H\/t ECop at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote the great Anna Russell, &#8220;I&#8217;m not making this up, you know.&#8221; It appears that the USAF has a Brony squadron: Earlier this month, word hit the Internet that an Air Force unit training to fly America\u2019s most advanced military aircraft are wearing a patch inspired by the television show My Little Pony: Friendship &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1007,1065,1064,1006,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-aviation","category-entertainment","category-media","category-military","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}