{"id":189160,"date":"2013-03-27T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T00:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123341861"},"modified":"2013-03-27T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T00:18:40","slug":"50-sw-pros-take-part-in-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=189160","title":{"rendered":"50 SW pros take part in Red Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123341861\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/03\/130211-F-WR604-002.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Maj. Mark Bigley, 50th Space Wing weapons and tactics officer, was close enough to smell jet exhaust and hear fighter planes take off from a nearby runway. <\/p>\n<p>He said that moment brought a stark reality to the exercise he was participating in and that it was easy for him and the other 50th Operations Group space professionals who participated in Red Flag 13-3 to imagine exactly how such a scene could occur during an actual combat operation. <\/p>\n<p>Bigley and six of his fellow space professionals spent more than three weeks at the large-force exercise held annually at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and upon reflection, relished every minute.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123341861\">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-189160","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\/189160","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=189160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189160\/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=189160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}