{"id":28173,"date":"2010-05-12T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123204271"},"modified":"2010-05-12T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:24:43","slug":"schriever-airmen-helping-others-through-afaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=28173","title":{"rendered":"Schriever Airmen helping others through AFAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123204271\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100511-F-8228P-541.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to think of the Air Force Assistance Fund as simply a charity. After all, contributions go toward helping people, often times in desperate need. <\/p>\n<p>However, the AFAF was designed as a way for Airmen to help other Airmen and their families in many other ways. <\/p>\n<p>Take the Air Force Aid Society as an example. It helps Airmen and their families reach their educational goals through the Gen. Henry H. Arnold Education Grant Program. <\/p>\n<p>More than 15 years ago, a young stay-at-home mom and spouse of an active duty Airman decided she wanted to go back to college, obtain a bachelor&#8217;s degree and help others through her career. She applied for the Arnold grant and was awarded $1,500 for each year she attended.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123204271\">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-28173","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\/28173","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=28173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173\/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=28173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}