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Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base |
2010-06-18 |
A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned. The Afghan officers and enlisted men have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations, according to the lookout bulletin, "Afghan Military Deserters in CONUS [Continental U.S.]," issued by Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Dallas, and obtained by FoxNews.com. The Afghans were attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The DLI program teaches English to military pilot candidates and other air force prospects from foreign countries allied with the U.S. It's the English language school for all foreign military and a lot of foreign government civilians. Had students from around 90 countries when I was there. "I can confirm that 17 have gone missing from the Defense Language Institute," said Gary Emery, Chief of Public Affairs, 37th Training Wing, at Lackland AFB. "They disappeared over the course of the last two years, and none in the last three months." We've had reports about this here at Rantburg. This isn't actually new news. |
Posted by:logi_cal |
#4 North Koreans shocked upon visiting South Korea. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-18 21:16 |
#3 I think the point I was making with this post was that these guys should have been restricted to base, NOT given ID badges that permit them access to ANY other installation. This, of course, notwithstanding any potential security risk of these guys being security risks of a different sort. This scenario exemplifies the lax security within our government & military, imho. |
Posted by: logi_cal 2010-06-18 11:50 |
#2 How are you going to keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paree. -10 Million Mexicans and Guatemalans can't be wrong - |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-06-18 11:24 |
#1 I cannot entirely blame these guys for taking the chance. Of the Afghans I have met currently living in the US, their nostalgia for their home country is worth a good five seconds of nostalgic reverie, and that's about it. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-18 10:10 |