{"id":125688,"date":"2024-09-13T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-55-wing-offut-air-force-base\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:00:12","slug":"usaf-fightin-55th-wing-what-to-know-about-offutt-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=125688","title":{"rendered":"USAF Fightin&#8217; 55th Wing: What To Know About Offutt Air Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Offut AFB (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icao.int\/pages\/default.aspx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >ICAO<\/a>: KOFF), Nebraska  located 10 miles (16.09 km; 8.68 NM) south of Omaha and adjacent to Bellevue in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarpy.gov\/?level=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Sarpy County<\/a>  is arguably one of the most prestigious assignments in the United States Air Force, USAF. Part of the reason is the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stratcom.mil\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)<\/a>. On <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/onboard-air-force-one-during-9-11\/\">9\/11, Air Force One<\/a> touched down there, with then-US President George W. Bush en route back to the nation&#8217;s capital of Washington DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offut AFB in Nebraska is one of the most prestigious bases in the USAF. The 55th Wing is a major reason for that prestige.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,398,1328,2896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-boeing","category-united-states-air-force","category-world-war-i"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125689,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125688\/revisions\/125689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}