{"id":92362,"date":"2024-07-23T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-defense-missions-c-5m-super-galaxy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:00:12","slug":"what-us-defense-missions-does-the-c-5m-super-galaxy-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=92362","title":{"rendered":"What US Defense Missions Does The C-5M Super Galaxy Support?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    In a recent Simple Flying article, I wrote about how the crew members of the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy (including one of my own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basictraining.af.mil\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >US Air Force Basic Military Training [BMT] <\/a>Military Training Instructors [MTIs]), in a self-deprecatingly humorous gesture, lovingly refer to their beloved bird as &#8220;FRED,&#8221; as in &#8220;F*cking Ridiculous Economic Disaster.&#8221; This is due to the plane&#8217;s expense and reliability issues.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the cynically humorous nickname of &#8220;FRED,&#8221; the C-5M endures.  Simple Flying examines mission types that the Super Galaxy supports.<\/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":[850,396,397,5549,620,1624,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-c-5-galaxy","category-cargo","category-lockheed","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92362","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=92362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92363,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92362\/revisions\/92363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}