{"id":3685,"date":"2015-01-28T07:28:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T07:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2015-01-27T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:34:07","slug":"frank-buerger-73-answering-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/01\/28\/frank-buerger-73-answering-the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Buerger &#8217;73 &#8211; Answering the Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3686\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/01\/Buerger-2045.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3686\" alt=\"Retired Navy Captain Frank Buerger '73\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/01\/Buerger-2045.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/01\/Buerger-2045.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/01\/Buerger-2045-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired Navy Captain Frank Buerger &#8217;73<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Frank Buerger &#8217;73, a retired Navy Captain and Naval Flight Officer, spoke on campus this week at a program called &#8220;Callings&#8221;. \u00a0Callings focuses on inviting alumni back to campus to share their story &#8211; from their time at Wabash on to today.<\/p>\n<p>Frank was thinking Law School&#8230;and took a hard right at the cockpit of an F-4 Phantom. \u00a0You can do that as a Psychology major at Wabash!<\/p>\n<p>Frank&#8217;s Navy career is the liberal arts in action. \u00a0After flight training he went on to go through the ranks. \u00a0He explained it is assumed you&#8217;ll be good in the jet &#8211; they wouldn&#8217;t give you this gold wings if there was any doubt. \u00a0&#8220;What else can you do?&#8221; is what the Navy, and all the Armed Services, look for in an officer.<\/p>\n<p>Frank proved his value as a flyer but he also proved his worth as a commander, leader, and intelligence officer. \u00a0He&#8217;s still working &#8211; he&#8217;s a civilian in the Office of Defense Intelligence Integration. \u00a0Take it for the Grunge, that&#8217;s probably a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Frank, for sharing your story with our guys and thanks for your Service!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Buerger &#8217;73, a retired Navy Captain and Naval Flight Officer, spoke on campus this week at a program called &#8220;Callings&#8221;. \u00a0Callings focuses on inviting alumni back to campus to share their [&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-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/01\/Buerger-2045.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}