Lovely, this means we have Iraqis flying F-16s, over American citizens. I saw Saudis were in Red Flag last month too.
Everyone feel good about this?
I’m not sure what the problem is. Iraq needs a military strong enough to stop ISIS. That’s surely in the our strong interest. One of the mistakes that lead to ISIS is that Democrats in CONgress held up sales of aircraft to the Iraqi military. If you remember, when ISIS swept into Iraq from Syria, Iraq had NO combat aircraft at all and had to jury rig light aircraft to fire Hellfire missiles. Iraq needs an air force.
I read a book that told Pakis training on F-16s in San Diego attacked a nuclear power plant in SoCal. The storyline must be all too real.
Everyone feel good about this?
It's very common for foreign ally nations to train some of their people in our military schools. Their country pays the bill, we train the student. I've trained with Japanese, Saudis, Czechs, Aussies, Brits, Moldovans, and probably a host of others I can't remember off the top of my head.
I think alot of people would be shocked at how many foreign nationals (Iraqis, Saudis, Jordanians, Afghanis, etc...) are at the controls of combat aircraft in US airspace on any given day.