{"id":4421,"date":"2017-10-10T00:31:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2017-10-10T00:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:01:30","slug":"women-as-fighter-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/10\/10\/women-as-fighter-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Women as fighter pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nOctober 8, is celebrated as Indian Air force day. It is indeed a proud moment for Indians that Indian women air force personnel will be flying Sukhoi-30 this month. In December 2015, the entry of women into the IAF\u2019s fighter stream was approved on an experimental basis for 5 years, thus paving the way for them to assume combat roles for the first time in one of the world&#8217;s largest militaries. These brave Indian women have shown that they are equal and second to none. This progressive step is a great take off to help them soar high in their careers and make the nation proud.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>T S Karthik,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chennai<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, October 8, is celebrated as Indian Air force day. It is indeed a proud moment for Indians that Indian women air force personnel will be flying Sukhoi-30 this month. In December 2015, the entry of women into the IAF\u2019s fighter stream was approved on an experimental basis for 5 years, thus paving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}