{"id":2531,"date":"2009-08-13T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123163233"},"modified":"2009-08-13T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:50:42","slug":"drest-trains-airmen-for-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"DREST trains Airmen for the fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123163233\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/090807-F-0209C-004.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Buckley Air Force Base Deployment Ready Expeditionary Skills Training graduated 40 Airmen Aug. 7, the program&#8217;s largest class so far. To date, 165 personnel have been trained. <\/p>\n<p>The class, which prepares Buckley Airmen for deployments, is three days long. The first day of training is in a classroom; however, days two and three are spent practicing the skills in a field training environment. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By preparing them for Army training we are giving them an advantage for Combat Skills Training and their deployment,&#8221; said Tech. Sgt. John Mere, Deployment Ready Expeditionary Skills Training NCO in charge who deployed for 11 months as Civil Affairs with the Army. &#8220;When they arrive they will know the lingo as well as basic skills, like how to hold a weapon,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I wish I would have gone through something like this prior to Combat Skills Training.&#8221; <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123163233\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","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\/2531","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=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/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=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}