{"id":12141,"date":"2019-09-18T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12141"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:47:09","slug":"happy-birthday-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12141","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, US Air Force!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5614,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/National_Security_Act_of_1947&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5615,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.airforcetimes.com\\\/news\\\/your-air-force\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/09\\\/a-legend-passes-dick-cole-last-of-the-doolittle-raiders-dies-at-103&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.airforcetimes.com\\\/news\\\/your-air-force\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/09\\\/a-legend-passes-dick-cole-last-of-the-doolittle-raiders-dies-at-103\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=UA-147431441-1\"><\/script>\n<script>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n  gtag('js', new Date());\n\n  gtag('config', 'UA-147431441-1');\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p>In one of those weirdly appropriate coincidences, today is both the birthday of the US Air Force and the Complementary Spouse. I say appropriate because the Complementary Spouse&#8217;s father was an Air Force captain serving as a weather officer when she was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Air Force was &#8220;born&#8221; on September 18, 1947 with the implementation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Security_Act_of_1947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Security Act of 1947<\/a>. This act was a major restructuring of the nation&#8217;s military post-WWII. It created the Department of Defense, established the Department of the Air Force as a sub-department, created the Central Intelligence Agency, and established the National Security Council. The Army Air Forces became the United States Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Xxr6eMwMaw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/04\/09\/a-legend-passes-dick-cole-last-of-the-doolittle-raiders-dies-at-103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As a side note<\/a>, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dick Cole, the last of the Doolittle Raiders, passed away this April. He had served as Jimmy Doolittle&#8217;s co-pilot in the No. 1 B-25 bomber. He was 103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So best wishes and a big thank you to all who served in the USAF on this the Air Force&#8217;s 72nd birthday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of those weirdly appropriate coincidences, today is both the birthday of the US Air Force and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4802,966,4801],"class_list":["post-12141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doolittle-raid","tag-us-air-force","tag-usaf-birthday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12144,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}