enhanced_deficit
06-27-2014, 07:33 AM
Considering recent barrage of news of growing Afghan insider attacks including by Afghan Pilots, would you feel safe with Afghan airforce flying over your town?
Even if one doesn't buy blowback risks theory, what are guarantees that Obama will ensure that there is competent leadership and vetting in place so any relatives or tribe members of any of the thousands of victims of drone attacks from a society where revenge is deeply rooted in culture would not slip into the Afghan Air Force that will be flying planes over US cities?
The Afghan air force might be coming to Georgia
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff June 26 at 3:36 PM
http://img.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2014/06/Super_Tucano_at_URUBRA_I_exercise.jpg
A Super Tucano in use by the Brazilian air force. (Photo by Giulliano B. Frassetto / Brazilian Air Force)
If you’re a resident of Georgia there’s a strong chance that sometime next year an Afghan pilot trainee could be flying over your head.
Moody Air Force Base, Ga., was selected as the most likely option for the new Afghan pilot training location, the Air Force announced in a news release. Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., are also being considered as potential sites, but Moody is preferred because its facilities are “immediately available for the new occupants to move into” and is the cheapest option for the Air Force.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/06/26/the-afghan-air-force-might-be-coming-to-georgia/
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Even if one doesn't buy blowback risks theory, what are guarantees that Obama will ensure that there is competent leadership and vetting in place so any relatives or tribe members of any of the thousands of victims of drone attacks from a society where revenge is deeply rooted in culture would not slip into the Afghan Air Force that will be flying planes over US cities?
The Afghan air force might be coming to Georgia
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff June 26 at 3:36 PM
http://img.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2014/06/Super_Tucano_at_URUBRA_I_exercise.jpg
A Super Tucano in use by the Brazilian air force. (Photo by Giulliano B. Frassetto / Brazilian Air Force)
If you’re a resident of Georgia there’s a strong chance that sometime next year an Afghan pilot trainee could be flying over your head.
Moody Air Force Base, Ga., was selected as the most likely option for the new Afghan pilot training location, the Air Force announced in a news release. Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., are also being considered as potential sites, but Moody is preferred because its facilities are “immediately available for the new occupants to move into” and is the cheapest option for the Air Force.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/06/26/the-afghan-air-force-might-be-coming-to-georgia/
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Afghan pilot kills 8 US troops, contractor in Kabul attack ... (http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/04/afghan_pilot_kills_8.php)
www.longwarjournal.org/.../afghan_pilot_kills_8.phpLong (http://www.longwarjournal.org/.../afghan_pilot_kills_8.phpLong)
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Apr 27, 2011 - Afghan pilot kills 8 US troops, contractor in Kabul attack ... The Taliban attacks and a string of recent attacks by Afghan security ..... Information on the insider attacks in which Afghan security personnel attack Coalition forces.
Insider attack kills 3 U.S. troops in Afghanistan ... (http://hamptonroads.com/2013/06/insider-attack-kills-3-us-troops-afghanistan)
Jun 9, 2013 - KABUL, Afghanistan A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on ... PilotOnline.com: News for Hampton Roads, Va., from The Virginian- ... The Taliban insurgents claim most of the insider attacks, saying they have ...
Pentagon IDs Special Forces soldiers killed in insider attack ... (http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140214/NEWS/302140021/Pentagon-IDs-Special-Forces-soldiers-killed-insider-attack)
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