{"id":161319,"date":"2024-12-25T10:56:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T00:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-some-us-air-force-bases-have-horses\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T10:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T00:56:52","slug":"not-quite-pegasus-why-some-us-air-force-bases-have-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=161319","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite Pegasus: Why Some US Air Force Bases Have Horses\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of horses has been in the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> (USAF) even when the USAF was the US Army Air Corps with the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"676196\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>North American P-51 Mustang<\/span><\/span>family of fighters, today\u2019s             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"652032\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>KC-46 Pegasus<\/span><\/span> aerial refueler jet tanker, and Joint Base Lewis-McChord\u2019s 8th Airlift Squadron of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258749\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-17-globemaster\/\"  >C-17 Globemasters<\/a><\/span> called the \u201cWorkhorses.\u201d Another way that the US Air Force recognizes the horse is by stating that it is a de facto spirit animal by having horse clubs on its bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take a look at the US Air Force&#8217;s continued connection with horses and support for equestrian activities.<\/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":[396,567,1387,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-sport","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161319","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=161319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161320,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161319\/revisions\/161320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}