{"id":9866,"date":"2010-02-03T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123188746"},"modified":"2010-02-03T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:10:00","slug":"22nd-sops-to-represent-50th-sw-in-guardian-challenge-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=9866","title":{"rendered":"22nd SOPS to represent 50th SW in Guardian Challenge 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123188746\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100201-F-6113F-063.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The 22nd Space Operations Squadron will once again represent the 50th Space Wing during the 2010 Guardian Challenge competition.<\/p>\n<p>During a score posting event held in the main fitness center Feb. 1, scores for each of the competing teams were revealed slowly, as numbers flashed across a giant screen, finally settling and revealing the score for the winning squadron, 22nd SOPS.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian Challenge competition traces its roots to Strategic Air Command. It began in 1967 as a missile combat competition between combat crews and combat targeting and aligning teams and was called &#8220;Curtain Raiser.&#8221; The competition was renamed Guardian Challenge in 1994 to reflect Air Force Space Command&#8217;s motto, &#8220;Guardians of the High Frontier.&#8221; Today, the competition pits the best space operations crew, security forces team, and space communication team against each other and determines the top space wing teams in the Air Force. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123188746\">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-9866","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\/9866","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=9866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866\/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=9866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}