{"id":74586,"date":"2017-09-09T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74586"},"modified":"2017-09-09T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:30:50","slug":"lt-col-eric-schultz-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74586","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Col. Eric Schultz passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=74587\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74587\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lt.-Col.-Eric-Schultz-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lt.-Col.-Eric-Schultz.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lt.-Col.-Eric-Schultz.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lt.-Col.-Eric-Schultz.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Lt.-Col.-Eric-Schultz.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/air-force-pilot-dies-after-crash-at-nevada-test-and-training-range-1.486830#.WbPqsNGQyUk\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz was killed when his aircraft succumbed to gravity over the Nevada Test and Training Range, approximately 100 miles northwest of Nellis Air Force Base. <\/p>\n<p>The Air Force isn&#8217;t telling which brand of aircraft he was flying when the incident happened, but in the picture above, he&#8217;s sitting in an F-35 six years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The aircraft was assigned to Air Force Materiel Command, which leads development of new combat technologies for the service.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Information about the type of aircraft involved is classified and not releasable,&#8221; Maj. Christina Sukach, chief of public affairs for the 99 Air Base Wing at Nellis, said in an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two A-10 pilots safely ejected from their crafts earlier this week when they crashed in the same airspace above the test range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz was killed when his aircraft succumbed to gravity over the Nevada Test and Training Range, approximately 100 miles northwest of Nellis Air Force Base. The Air Force isn&#8217;t telling which brand of aircraft he was flying when the incident happened, but in the picture above, he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74587,"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-74586","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\/2017\/09\/Lt.-Col.-Eric-Schultz.jpg?fit=1440%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jp0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74586","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=74586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}