{"id":239981,"date":"2016-03-15T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123470660"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:36:18","slug":"rare-opportunity-allows-master-sgt-to-lead-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239981","title":{"rendered":"Rare opportunity allows Master Sgt. to lead the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123470660\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/03\/160310-F-IL629-007.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;What are you doing here Air Force?&#8221; yelled an Army Ranger instructor to then Tech. Sgt. Michael Burke. &#8220;You don&#8217;t belong here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here to report for Ranger School,&#8221; Burke explained. &#8220;I have a slot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fall in!&#8221; the Ranger instructor screamed.<\/p>\n<p>Burke proceeded to hustle back into formation, his blue physical fitness uniform sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the sea of grey black Army pt uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>That was Master Sgt. Michael Burke&#8217;s, 460th Security Forces Squadron, first introduction to Ranger School, one he will never forget.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123470660\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123470660\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/03\/160310-F-IL629-007.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;What are you doing here Air Force?&#8221; yelled an Army Ranger instructor to then Tech. Sgt. Michael Burke. &#8220;You don&#8217;t belong here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here to report for Ranger School,&#8221; Burke explained. &#8220;I have a slot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fall in!&#8221; the Ranger instructor screamed.<\/p>\n<p>Burke proceeded to hustle back into formation, his blue physical fitness uniform sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the sea of grey black Army pt uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>That was Master Sgt. Michael Burke&#8217;s, 460th Security Forces Squadron, first introduction to Ranger School, one he will never forget.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123470660\">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-239981","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\/239981","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=239981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239982,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239981\/revisions\/239982"}],"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=239981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}