{"id":1212,"date":"2010-08-26T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2010-08-26T08:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:29:50","slug":"check-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/08\/26\/check-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things you are taught as a fighter pilot at a very early stage is to constantly &#8220;check six&#8221;. \u00a0&#8220;Check six&#8221; means clearing behind you to make sure there&#8217;s no one on your tail. \u00a0(Can&#8217;t demo this if you&#8217;re wearing a digital watch!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another version&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1213\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2010\/08\/gac-car.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1213\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2010\/08\/gac-car.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/08\/gac-car.jpg 432w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/08\/gac-car-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &quot;JEC - GAC&quot; BMW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The story goes like this. \u00a0Peter Durant&#8217;s (Class of 1970) daughter is behind this BMW in the Washington, DC area. \u00a0The license plate is a personalized one. \u00a0Not unusual as many are out there. \u00a0But it surrounded by a Wabash College plate frame. \u00a0She snaps the shot and emails it to Dad. \u00a0Dad takes one look and&#8230;ahah! &#8211; JEC is Jane Castanias and GEC is Greg Castanias &#8217;87. \u00a0Greg gets the email&#8230;completes the loop.<\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show you that the reach is far and wide by this little college for men in rural Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things you are taught as a fighter pilot at a very early stage is to constantly &#8220;check six&#8221;. \u00a0&#8220;Check six&#8221; means clearing behind you to make sure there&#8217;s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}