{"id":231981,"date":"2015-08-05T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123454386"},"modified":"2015-08-05T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T17:48:40","slug":"airmans-drive-to-serve-leads-to-missile-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=231981","title":{"rendered":"Airman&#8217;s drive to serve leads to missile warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123454386\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/07\/150723-F-IL629-010.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With one of the most mission critical jobs on base, Senior Airman Justin D. Paschal, 2nd Space Warning Squadron data systems operator, has to be &#8220;locked in&#8221; to make sure the bases mission of missile defense is carried out at the maximum efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Augusta, Georgia, Paschal had to work to make his dream of becoming an Airman a reality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took a lot for me to get here. I had to go from 275 pounds to 198 pounds,&#8221; Paschal said. &#8220;I wanted a job, a nice career, something to get me out of my city so I could learn different trades.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123454386\">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-231981","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\/231981","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=231981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231981\/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=231981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}