Posted on 09/08/2006 3:07:09 PM PDT by show me state
Edited on 09/08/2006 3:58:09 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2006 — Air Force Maj. Jill Metzger, who vanished Monday in Kyrgyzstan, has been found and now is back in Air Force control, ABC News has learned.
"We are elated to have Jill back with us," said Air Force spokesman Col. Scott Reese. Local police notified U.S. officials that she had been found at 1:15 a.m. local time in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Air Force officials say she was found alone and appears to have been beaten. Officials say she is "coherent," in "relatively good condition" and is talking to investigators. She is also undergoing medical evaluation.
Officials would not comment on the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and said the investigation is ongoing
The news brought elation to Metzger's family.
"It's a dream come true. The most significant event of our lives," said Kelly Mayo, Metzger's father-in-law. Mayo said he has not spoken to Metzger yet, but believes she had been kidnapped and "whoever had her dropped her off on the side of the road."
Metzger vanished on Monday afternoon in Kyrgyzstan — a poor, predominantly Muslim country in Central Asia. Since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, Kyrgyzstan has been home to a strategically important U.S. military base that supports operations in Afghanistan. The government is generally pro-American, and in recent years has experienced sporadic clashes with Islamic fundamentalists.
Just 10 days before deploying to Kyrgyzstan in April, Metzger married Air Force Capt. Josh Mayo. They had already bought tickets for a honeymoon in Jamaica later this month, he said.
"We were going to take Jet Skis out, have a couple of romantic dinners. It is very disappointing," said Mayo
Before her disappearance, Metzger was last seen out shopping with five others from the base. The group briefly separated inside a department store in the center of Bishkek, several miles from the base. They had agreed to meet a short time later, but Metzger never showed up.
NO but I come from a military family including father and siblings (now retired Army, Navy, Marines) and now the current generation is joining (one back from Afghanistan a few months ago). There's no way around that combat finds people but there are some situations more dangerous than others.
Go ahead tell me.
I don't think women and men are interchangeable cogs. I believe there are numerous things that women do better than men.
I believe our founders wrote The Constitution to "Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".
We are in a time, due to our scientific advancements and liberating culture, where women do not need to stay at home and have twenty children to assure that some will live to adulthood. Women are not required to stay guarded in the home to protect our future as the Islamists still believe.
I invite you to step into the future of the Twenty-First Century and understand that your feelings and doubts are the same reasoning that the Islamists use to stone women to death in an "honor killing" if they are raped. It is the same thought that allows Islamic Men to own their women, beat and abuse women, sexually disfigure women and sexually abuse their daughters.
Women in our culture are a tremendous resource that we must mobilize against this War on Islamic Fascists. I also don't believe I have the right to deny women the right to "Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity". They vote, therefore they can die to save me.
Air Force officials say she was found alone and appears to have been beaten.
She was alone and not being held against her will, and was in good condition when she was found, Pentagon officials said.
The Major Was In A Mall,,Not A Foxhole.
In A REAR AREA.
DAI UY !
"They probably thought she was a tourist when they grabbed her, but learned quickly she was a US service member."
Nah. They thought she was a man when they took her. While they were recording footage of her beating for the next Al-Jazeera music video, they discovered she was a woman and let her go.
From the article:
Just 10 days before deploying to Kyrgyzstan in April, Metzger married Air Force Capt. Josh Mayo.
More than a couple of weeks.
is that supposed to be funny?
Saw that so it now makes sense. Average 2Lt is commissioned at about 21 so the number of years up to Major is about right.
Right about her marriage, I amended that in a later post .
Maybe not, but they were knee-jerking to "woman" "shopping" and "lost".
LOL, new to FR??
freeperdom has changed since its early days......everyone seems so cynical and suspicious
OTOH......if I could enlist, right now, I would.....
You losing badly here, so let me help you figure this out.
we are in a war on terror and it matters nothing to our enemies if an American is wearing a uniform or is a civilian, they will kill us.
If they get the chance they will kill us here in our own country, combat for them is where ever they find us.
Sadly this Major who you would accuse of absenting herself without leave for the purposes of fornicating with an islamist, is one of those that is defending you.
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