Posted on 10/21/2017 7:07:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to a report from the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, 152 soldiers from the Afghan army who had been selected for special training in the United States have gone AWOL while on U.S. soil.
According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, 13 of the 152 who had gone AWOL were still at large as of March 7 of this year. Seventy of the 152 had fled the United States; 39 gained legal status in the U.S.; and 27 were arrested, removed or in the process of being removed from the U.S. Three no longer were AWOL or returned to their training base in the U.S.
"There are so many problems here, it’s hard to know where to start," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement. "This is bad for national security, bad for Afghan military readiness, and bad for U.S. taxpayers."
AWOL Afghans are considered a security risk in the U.S. because they have military training and are of fighting age, and relatively few are ever arrested or detained.
Nearly all the Afghans who fled since 2005 were officers. Most were what the military calls "company grade" officers, meaning they were at the rank of lieutenant or captain. The prevalence of this group to abandon training posts is "particularly alarming," the report said, given the officers' important role in maintaining the overall readiness of the Afghan military.
The Afghans have fled from posts across America, including Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, where they are required to take English-language training; Fort Rucker, Ala.; Fort Benning, Ga.; Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
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This is why it will be a long time before we leave Afghanistan.
One of our worst Presidents, President George W. Bush of course.
A relative of mine had the same experience training a class of Saudi officers. Going AWOL, Binge-drinking, crazy driving, and shooting down sea-gulls on a public beach with pellet guns. They were recalled to Saudi Arabia eventually — apparently there was some pressure from Saudi attaches to gloss out the details of their misbehavior in the report that went back with them. One Saudi officer implied that they could face beheading if an accurate account of their behavior was given.
I thought Senator McCain was friends with a bunch of these guys, can’t he just make a phone call to find there whereabouts?
Gee, that would have been too bad.
Our big sack of nothing we got from Dubya’s Afghan adventure continues. But at least “Girls got to go to school!”
Why would anyone want to go back to the meat grinder? Good for us that we’re getting the cream. Not good for Afghanistan or the war effort.
If you were flown out of one of the worst chitholes on earth and landed in paradise would you want to go back?
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