{"id":361212,"date":"2020-07-04T11:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T06:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361212"},"modified":"2020-07-04T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T07:08:20","slug":"boeing-communications-chief-resigns-over-decades-old-article-on-women-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-communications-chief-resigns-over-decades-old-article-on-women-in-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing communications chief resigns over decades-old article on women in combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co&#8217;s communications chief Niel Golightly abruptly resigned on Thursday, following an employee&#8217;s complaint over an article the former US military pilot wrote 33 years ago arguing women should not serve in combat. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My article was a 29-year-old Cold War navy pilot&#8217;s misguided contribution to a debate that was live at the time,&#8221; Golightly said in a statement accompanying Boeing&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My argument was embarrassingly wrong and offensive. The article is not a reflection of who I am; but nonetheless I have decided that in the interest of the company I will step down,&#8221; Golightly said.<\/p>\n<p>His exit leaves Boeing trying to fill the crucial communications role for the fourth time in less than three years at a time when it is battling to shore up its brand after the prolonged safety grounding of its Boeing 737 MAX jetliner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co&#8217;s communications chief Niel Golightly abruptly resigned on Thursday, following an employee&#8217;s complaint over an article the former US military pilot wrote 33 years ago arguing women should not serve in combat. &#8220;My article was a 29-year-old Cold War navy pilot&#8217;s misguided contribution to a debate that was live at the time,&#8221; Golightly said in a statement accompanying Boeing&#8217;s announcement. &#8220;My argument was embarrassingly wrong and offensive. The article is not a reflection of who I am; but nonetheless I have decided that in the interest of the company I will step down,&#8221; Golightly said. His exit leaves Boeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}