{"id":195844,"date":"2008-06-10T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/gates-bitch-slaps-fighter-mafia\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:29:00","slug":"gates-bitch-slaps-fighter-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/gates-bitch-slaps-fighter-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates Bitch Slaps Fighter Mafia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1984, the Air force chiefs have staff have all been former fighter pilots.  Before that, they were all bomber pilots.<\/p>\n<p>With the appointment of General Norton Schwartz, who flew C-130s and AC-130s, it&#8217;s clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2008\/06\/09\/gates-vs-fighters\/\">Robert Gates is slapping down the so called &#8220;fighter mafia&#8221; hard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Vice Chief is now General William Fraser III, a former bomber pilot, which is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">another<\/span> slap at the fighter jock leadership culture.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now, we can start seeing the Air Force do something useful at the upper leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1984, the Air force chiefs have staff have all been former fighter pilots. Before that, they were all bomber pilots. With the appointment of General Norton Schwartz, who flew C-130s and AC-130s, it&#8217;s clear that Robert Gates is slapping down the so called &#8220;fighter mafia&#8221; hard. What&#8217;s more, Vice Chief is now General William &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1092,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-culture","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195844"}],"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=195844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}