{"id":5447,"date":"2013-05-14T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:55:10","slug":"special-operations-forces-industry-conference-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=5447","title":{"rendered":"Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SOFIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5448\" title=\"SOFIC\" src=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SOFIC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>BlueSheepdog Richard and I just got back from the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) in Tampa.\u00a0 The conference has a show floor that we attend every year.\u00a0 This year it was again awash in stealth plane and helicopter mock-ups, mini-guns, tents, rigid inflatable boats, off road vehicles, combat information systems, and sat-com dishes.<\/p>\n<p>General photos of the show floor are prohibited to protect the identities of the many Spec Ops personnel in attendance.\u00a0 I really wanted to get some pictures of all the cool cutting edge hardware, but I respect the operational security of the event.<\/p>\n<p>I got to check out some interesting equipment that may be of LE interest, though.\u00a0 I did get a few pictures.\u00a0 Some items could be photoed by Press with the specific permission of the vendor and barring any image containing attendees.\u00a0 I will share what I found out in the next week or so.<\/p>\n<p>Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlueSheepdog Richard and I just got back from the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) in Tampa.\u00a0 The conference has a show floor that we attend every year.\u00a0 This year it was again awash in stealth plane and helicopter mock-ups, mini-guns, tents, rigid inflatable boats, off road vehicles, combat information systems, and sat-com dishes. General photos of the show floor are prohibited to protect the identities of the many Spec Ops personnel in attendance.\u00a0 I really wanted to get some pictures of all the cool cutting edge hardware, but I respect the operational security of the event. I got to check out some interesting equipment that may be of LE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=5447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[308],"tags":[835,747],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sofic","tag-sofic","tag-special-operations-forces-industry-conference-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-1pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}