{"id":126119,"date":"2024-09-13T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/longest-flying-a-10-warthog-pilot-us-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:00:12","slug":"colonel-john-karl-marks-the-longest-flying-a-10-warthog-pilot-in-us-air-force-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=126119","title":{"rendered":"Colonel John &#8216;Karl&#8217; Marks: The Longest-Flying A-10 Warthog Pilot In US Air Force History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, known much better to civilians and military types by its beloved &#8220;Warthog&#8221; nickname, made its maiden flight on May 10, 1972. Like the other fifty-something (and older) warbirds in the US Armed Forces fleets  the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/patric-fleming-wwii-ace-died-1st-ever-b-52-crash\/\">Boeing B-52 Stratofortress<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/p-3-orion-what-to-know-about-us-navy-long-range-submarine-hunter\/\">Lockheed P-3 Orion<\/a> come immediately to mind  it&#8217;s safe to say that the Warthog is older than most of the pilots flying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the A-10 Warthog is older than most of the pilots flying it nowadays, Colonel &#8216;Karl&#8217; Marks is a notable exception.<\/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":[9056,396,397,412,6341,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-10-warthog","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-military","category-retirements","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126119","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=126119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126123,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126119\/revisions\/126123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}