“.....and often come from elite families”
It’s not “often”. It’s almost always. Anyone that has gone through Navy Flight School will tel you that they know a Saudi Royal.
Inbred Saudi Royal.
“It’s not “often”. It’s almost always. Anyone that has gone through Navy Flight School will tel you that they know a Saudi Royal.”
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This is true^^
Just about every pilot in the Saudi Air Force is kin to the king, most of them are considered princes but there are probably 15,000 “princes” in Saudi Arabia. Everything runs on kinship over there, your degree of kinship to the king determines your lot in life.
They send these guys over here to train and pretty much give them an unlimited credit card, they would show up driving Lamborghinis and other expensive sports cars when I was in flight school. They also went wild, out partying all the time, drinking, chasing girls, etc. You’d be surprised (or not) how many American girls would flock to these little greaseballs when they’d show up in a fancy car throwing money around.
There was a story I’d heard years ago about one Saudi that just refused to make any effort at all in flight school, never studied or prepared for the flights, partied all the time etc. The navy finally had enough and kicked him out, putting him on a plane back to Saudi and telling them that they just couldn’t work with him. The story goes that he was met at the airplane by security guards who dragged him away and he was summarily executed for dishonoring the royal family. After that the navy instituted a blanket policy that we couldn’t attrite them no matter how bad they were, the navy didn’t want the blood on their hands. I’m not sure if the story was true but that’s what I was told in flight school.