{"id":370834,"date":"2026-10-12T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370834\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:53:02","slug":"air-chief-links-queens-first-solo-gripen-flight-on-october-8-to-troop-morale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370834\/","title":{"rendered":"Air chief links Queen\u2019s first solo Gripen flight on October 8 to troop morale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal audience after the 2025 border clashes<\/p>\n<p>ACM Sakesan recalled that the Queen made a private visit and requested an audience with air force personnel on August 15, 2025, less than a month after the first round of clashes with Cambodia on July 24\u201328 that year.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1Gl0LxtJwUlgfbeofO0Z.webp\" alt=\"Air chief links Queen\u2019s first solo Gripen flight on October 8 to troop morale\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1820px; height: 1024px;\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n            <\/p>\n<p>Then air force commander-in-chief Air Chief Marshal Punpakdee\u00a0Pattanakul led representatives of the personnel into the royal audience, according to ACM Sakesan.<\/p>\n<p>During the audience, Her Majesty presented Phra Phalang Phaendin amulets commissioned by His Majesty the King to air force personnel who had carried out national defence missions, ACM Sakesan said.<\/p>\n<p>ACM Sakesan, who was an assistant commander-in-chief at the time, recalled receiving the amulets and distributing them to combat personnel and those supporting their operations. Referring to a photograph, ACM Sakesan identified the purple boxes as the containers holding the royal gifts.<\/p>\n<p>ACM Sakesan said a second round of fighting followed a few months after the August audience and described its outcome as a Thai victory over Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few months later, there was a second round of fighting, and we achieved victory. This was an immensely valuable boost to morale,\u201d ACM Sakesan said, expressing gratitude for the royal support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe armed forces will fight to the death when we have an institution that gives us such encouragement,\u201d ACM Sakesan said.<\/p>\n<p>ACM Sakesan urged personnel to uphold and protect the nation, religion and monarchy. Describing the monarchy as an institution without equal, ACM Sakesan said it had helped restore, build and develop the country over more than 800 years of Thai history, while encouraging service personnel to fight in its defence and achieve victory.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cMovakqvLrbhfK2WsxZU.webp\" alt=\"Air chief links Queen\u2019s first solo Gripen flight on October 8 to troop morale\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1820px; height: 1024px;\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal audience after the 2025 border clashes ACM Sakesan recalled that the Queen made a private visit and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4022,136806,136809,9,24,63,30539,122,124,123,136808,136807],"class_list":["post-370834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-breaking-news","tag-gripen-fighter-jets","tag-morale-boosting","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-suthida","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royal-thai-air-force","tag-thai-cambodian-border-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}