{"id":3163,"date":"2009-09-03T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123166337"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T22:03:27","slug":"notre-dame-legend-meets-malmstrom-airmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame Legend meets Malmstrom Airmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123166337\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/090828-F-9565T-060.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Daniel &#8220;Rudy&#8221; Ruettiger, one of only two Notre Dame football players to ever be carried from the field, toured Malmstrom Air Force Base and spoke with the Airmen of the &#8220;First Aces&#8221; Aug. 28 and 29. <\/p>\n<p>The real-life Rudy first met with missileers and Airmen from the 341st Operations Group during a pre-departure briefing Aug. 28 in Building 500 after an introduction by Col. Mohammed A. &#8220;Mo&#8221; Khan, 341st OG commander. <\/p>\n<p>The colonel first met Mr. Ruettiger when he was a major stationed at Patrick Air Force Base and was coaching his son&#8217;s football team in what he called a &#8220;perfect&#8221; season, zero wins. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123166337\">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-3163","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\/3163","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=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/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=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}