{"id":70897,"date":"2017-03-16T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70897"},"modified":"2017-03-16T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:05:24","slug":"colonel-william-r-jones-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70897","title":{"rendered":"Colonel William R. Jones pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=66961\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66961\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/William-Jones-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/William-Jones.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/William-Jones.jpg?resize=250%2C333&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/William-Jones.jpg?w=534&amp;ssl=1 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We heard rumors yesterday, but I was waiting for confirmation. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/local_state_news\/former-fighter-wing-commander-in-south-carolina-pleads-guilty-on\/article_b39a7342-0a4a-11e7-b0db-d3f27057b1e3.html\">Post-Courier<\/a>, Air Force Colonel William R. Jones pleaded guilty to possessing images and videos of child pornography yesterday at his court martial. We talked about him <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66960\">back in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jones was relieved of duty as vice commander in 2016. He had become vice commander in 2014. He had been a command pilot and instructor with more than 2,000 flight hours and was reassigned to a desk job as deputy chief of safety for the Ninth Air Force headquarters at Shaw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s looking at ten years in the slammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We heard rumors yesterday, but I was waiting for confirmation. According to the Post-Courier, Air Force Colonel William R. Jones pleaded guilty to possessing images and videos of child pornography yesterday at his court martial. We talked about him back in July. Jones was relieved of duty as vice commander in 2016. He had become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/William-Jones.jpg?fit=534%2C712&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-irv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}