{"id":239423,"date":"2016-02-09T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123468667"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:53:12","slug":"airman-earns-elite-army-ranger-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239423","title":{"rendered":"Airman earns elite Army Ranger tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123468667\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/02\/160209-F-ZZ999-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>What started out as curiosity became a great responsibility then turned into a rare achievement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knowing I was the sole representative of the Air Force, it was bigger than just me,&#8221; said Senior Airman Aaron Inch, 13th Air Support Operations Squadron radio operator maintainer and driver, &#8220;I was there for the Air Force and for the 13th ASOS so there was a lot of weight on my shoulders to make a statement that we can do this too.&#8221;<br \/>\nInch graduated from the U.S. Army Ranger School in December. He is one of about 300 Airmen to ever complete the grueling 61-day training course and one of only a handful of senior airmen to graduate. He was accepted to the school as an airman first class, something even rarer.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123468667\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123468667\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/02\/160209-F-ZZ999-001.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>What started out as curiosity became a great responsibility then turned into a rare achievement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knowing I was the sole representative of the Air Force, it was bigger than just me,&#8221; said Senior Airman Aaron Inch, 13th Air Support Operations Squadron radio operator maintainer and driver, &#8220;I was there for the Air Force and for the 13th ASOS so there was a lot of weight on my shoulders to make a statement that we can do this too.&#8221;<br \/>\nInch graduated from the U.S. Army Ranger School in December. He is one of about 300 Airmen to ever complete the grueling 61-day training course and one of only a handful of senior airmen to graduate. He was accepted to the school as an airman first class, something even rarer.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123468667\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","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-239423","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\/239423","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=239423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239424,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239423\/revisions\/239424"}],"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=239423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}