{"id":184626,"date":"2013-03-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123338838"},"modified":"2013-03-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:00:00","slug":"afspc-space-and-missile-pioneers-major-general-osmond-j-ritland-col-edward-n-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=184626","title":{"rendered":"AFSPC Space and Missile Pioneers &#8211; Major General Osmond J. Ritland &amp; Col Edward N. Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123338838\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/03\/130305-F-NQ666-001.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As we celebrate Air Force Space Command&#8217;s 30th Anniversary we recognize individuals who played a significant role in the history of the Air Force space and missile programs &#8211; our Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>This week we recognize <strong>Major General Osmond J. Ritland <\/strong>and <strong>Colonel Edward N. Hall<\/p>\n<p>Major General Osmond J. Ritland&#160;<\/strong>organized the 4925th Test Group (Atomic), in 1950, which was responsible for development testing of all equipment needed to attain the Air Force&#8217;s nuclear weapons capability. In 1954, he served as Chief, Atomic Energy Division, HQ USAF, where he supervised and coordinated all atomic energy matters involving Air Force nuclear programs. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123338838\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184626","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\/184626","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184626\/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=184626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}