{"id":4203,"date":"2009-10-20T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123173577"},"modified":"2009-10-20T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T19:40:34","slug":"sf-soldier-motivates-team-buckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=4203","title":{"rendered":"SF Soldier motivates Team Buckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123173577\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/091016-F-1809V-020.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Retired Army Sergeant First Class Dana Bowman related his story of loss and recovery at the Buckley Leadership Development Center Oct. 16. <\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Bowman began his Army career as an engineer, quickly moving on to a special forces unit. He later joined the Army&#8217;s elite parachute demonstration team, the Golden Knights. During annual training for the Golden Knights in February 1994, Sergeant Bowman&#8217;s life changed in an flash. <\/p>\n<p>During a maneuver called the Diamond Track, where two parachutists move away from each other for about a mile then fly back towards each other, crossing in the sky, Sergeant Bowman and his teammate Sgt. Jose Aguillon collided at a combined speed of 300 mph. Sergeant Bowman&#8217;s legs were severed; his teammate died instantly. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123173577\">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-4203","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\/4203","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=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/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=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}