{"id":10586,"date":"2010-02-04T17:33:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123189196"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:33:43","slug":"air-force-conducts-mass-enlistment-with-rocket-backdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=10586","title":{"rendered":"Air Force conducts mass enlistment with rocket backdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123189196\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100120-F-7972M-112.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Forty Air Force recruits got their first glimpse at active duty Feb. 4 when they were sworn into the Delayed Entry Program at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>45th Space Wing Commander Brig. Gen. Edward L. Bolton Jr. led the oath in front of a Delta IV rocket being readied for launch from Pad 37.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome to the Air Force,&#8221; General Bolton said after the oath was completed. A former enlisted Airmen himself, he told the recruits how he had also been in the DEP more than 20 years ago.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123189196\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}