{"id":71720,"date":"2011-01-03T17:54:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T21:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123236654"},"modified":"2011-01-03T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T21:54:24","slug":"longest-serving-enlisted-space-operator-retires-at-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=71720","title":{"rendered":"Longest serving enlisted space operator retires at Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123236654\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/101208-F-9699H-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As a young basic training Airman in 1986, Master Sgt. Micheal Meyer was about to go boldly where no other enlisted troop had gone &#8211; space operations. <\/p>\n<p>Back then, Air Force Space Command was only four years old and the job of commanding and controlling satellites had been done by officers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was one of the first enlisted to command and control satellites,&#8221; said Sergeant Meyer, 21st Operations Group noncommissioned officer in charge of standardization. <\/p>\n<p>In April, Sergeant Meyer officially retires as one of the longest serving space operators in Air Force Space Command. He will have served 25 years in the U.S. Air Force.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123236654\">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-71720","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\/71720","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=71720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71720\/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=71720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}