{"id":508195,"date":"2018-08-13T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1600436\/space-squadron-celebrates-heritage-reflects-on-past-25-years\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:45:07","slug":"space-squadron-celebrates-heritage-reflects-on-past-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=508195","title":{"rendered":"Space squadron celebrates heritage, reflects on past 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years ago, Maj. Frank Casserino had no idea what an impact his work as a Reserve Citizen Airman would have on the future of the Air Force Reserve\u2019s involvement in the space program. He did know, however, that Reservists had a lot to offer to their active duty partners and he encouraged local leadership to consider standing up a Reserve space squadron.<br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/Aug\/13\/2001953529\/82\/55\/0\/180804-F-II154-0080.JPG' alt='Lt. Col. James Hogan, 7th Space Operations Squadron commander, welcomes attendees to the 7 SOPS 25th Anniversary event in downtown Colorado Springs, Aug. 4th, 2018.' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years ago, Maj. Frank Casserino had no idea what an impact his work as a Reserve Citizen Airman would have on the future of the Air Force Reserve&rsquo;s involvement in the space program. He did know, however, that Reservists had a lot to offer to their active duty partners and he encouraged local leadership to consider standing up a Reserve space squadron.<br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/Aug\/13\/2001953529\/82\/55\/0\/180804-F-II154-0080.JPG\" alt=\"Lt. Col. James Hogan, 7th Space Operations Squadron commander, welcomes attendees to the 7 SOPS 25th Anniversary event in downtown Colorado Springs, Aug. 4th, 2018.\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3123,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508195","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\/508195","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\/3123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508196,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508195\/revisions\/508196"}],"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=508195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}