{"id":724,"date":"2008-12-06T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T01:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2008\/12\/06\/desert-storm-naval-aviator-writes-in\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T01:06:15","slug":"desert-storm-naval-aviator-writes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2008\/12\/06\/desert-storm-naval-aviator-writes-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Storm Naval Aviator Writes In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for this report.\u00a0  Back in the late 80s and early 90s (Desert Storm), I served as a Naval Aviator.\u00a0  It was only through constant &#8220;dry practice&#8221; that we were able to maintain the  level of skill necessay to perform our missions and survive the inevitable  emergencies.\u00a0 In my second career as a pediatrician, I found the same thing to  be true.\u00a0 What surprises me is that I never (and I mean never) thought to apply  that principle to firearms training.\u00a0 But of course in retrospect, confining  firearms training to live fire makes as much sense as confining training in  aircraft emergencies to actual malfunctions and suturing to closing actual  lacerations.\u00a0 Thank you for the eye opening insight.\u00a0 I look forward to the next  27!<\/p>\n<p>Arie F<\/span><span style=\"color: #1f497d\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza, Thank you for this report.\u00a0 Back in the late 80s and early 90s (Desert Storm), I served as a Naval Aviator.\u00a0 It was only through constant &#8220;dry practice&#8221; that we were able to maintain the level of skill necessay to perform our missions and survive the inevitable emergencies.\u00a0 In my second career as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[3206,1784,2872,2219,1509,204,1671,1476,2114,3466,4673,3190,579,26,19,2054,1674,987,347,232,1511,3353,2195,4768,339,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}