Afghan pilot training ends after almost half went AWOL in America

> More than 40 percent of the Afghan Air Force students enrolled in the U.S.-based training program to fly the AC-208 Combat Caravan, a light attack combat aircraft, went AWOL, according to a quarterly report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR.

> The training took place at Fort Worth, Texas, SIGAR told Air Force Times. Northrop Grumman operates a 5,000 square-foot custom-built classroom space located at Meacham Airport in Fort Worth.

What went wrong? Where did they go? How fucked is Afghanistan if their guys won't even take a sweet attack pilot gig there?

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Nigga, it's Afghanistan.

It really isn't worth staying there unless you're rich enough to afford a walled compound.

Same reason the Contras all disappeared into the country when they brought them in for training. Why fight for whatever shithole you live in when you can live in the richest country in the world? I really respect the half that stayed, though.

>won't even take a sweet attack pilot gig
nigga there is no sweet attack pilot gig in afghanistan
their military is a load of shit, the people are shit, the country is the bonafide definition of a shithole

Sure but how are they going to stop the Talibans from taking over when the US eventually pulls out?

They aren't, and they aren't.

This. If you're smart enough to fly planes, you're probably smart enough to get out of Afghanistan to a country you could thrive in.

>allowing foreign soldiers off-base without escort
>especially from third world shitholes
(lol

The problem is they don't thrive. They merely create a semi-sharia colony within the United States. Like Minneapolis.

It also used to happen with cuban baseball players

Eh, that's mostly due to low-educated refugees The people who are rich and well-educated enough to fly a plane are likely capable of living a middle-class life in most western countries.

> tfw no qt afghan pilot refugee gf

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Gulf states send spoiled princes and lesser royalty as pilots but what about third world Arab countries?

Get on this ICE ffs. Also remember kids, war is piece, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. American kids fighting in Trashcanistan were not even born for 9/11 but dont worry the American taxpayer OWES the nation of Afghanistan so don't forget to pay those taxes for the deficit spending to "fight them over there" forever. Honk honk, Que the sub 80 iq war hawk drones to defend this shit.

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American just needs to take that L already and admit they've lost Afghanistan. The Taliban has won.

They can't just keep on granting asylum to every collaborator forever.

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Eh, there's not really such a thing as "winning" Afghanistan. The goal now is simply preventing it from becoming a completely failed state that provides funding and shelter for groups like Al Qaeda. So long as Afghanistan's shit stays in Afghanistan, the goal is being accomplished.

this reminds me of the story of the nigerian or was it the ghanian football team they got the visa to go to uk to play it was hard to get once they hit the uk most of them ran away to seek asylm. The couch was white british and it was funny to watch

North Korean athletes literally have family members taken hostage to prevent defection at international sporting events. I can't really blame someone for wanting to escape their shithole.

This is probably the most unironically blue pilled post I've seen in a while

They're moving to Macau?

It's true, though. The only reason Afghanistan was invaded to begin with was due to their harboring of Bin Laden and AQ. The stated goal of the United States when they began the war was to dismantle Al Qaeda and deny them the funding and support of the Taliban.

That wasn't an isolated incident, it happens at every game/event. It's not just athletes, it's supporters, fake journalists, musicians, dancers, ...

> The number of athletes and officials from the recent games who stayed in Australia has now ballooned to roughly 250. For the most part the athletes have gone underground, keeping low profiles to evade attention from the authorities in Australia and their home countries.

> after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, 82 athletes and officials sought asylum to remain in the United Kingdom. At least 200 Ghanaians who entered Brazil for the World Cup as tourists sought asylum in 2014.

Can't blame them for trying, blame the rubes giving them free shit.

> For many athletes, applying as part of a team delegation to major sporting events offers a much higher chance of securing visas and traveling safely and for free. Back home, mismanagement, corruption and poor welfare packages as well as sub-par training facilities often means being an athlete is not the most lucrative livelihood.

>tfw literal caveman in a flight suit

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It's not just the free shit, it's the potential for a life that consists of more than just living and dying in some shitty village with nothing even approaching the standard of living of the poorest westerners. Having a functioning economy is a huge draw.

>harboring of Bin Laden and AQ
It is very obvious the Taliban couldn't have kicked Bin Laden & his pals out if they tried. After 20 years of US occupation, Afghanistan is still the lawless wild west. The Taliban had even less control of the country then, than the US does now.

>Like Minneapolis
Not to get all Jow Forums but seriously out of every city in the US to send all the muzzies to, how did we end up picking America's Scandinavia?

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Sure, but it didn't help that they were actively supplying him and reused to work with the US right after it had experienced the most deadly attack on civilians in their history. If Afghanistan had made sure its lawlessness and special brand of radical Islam stayed in the country, no one would care, but instead, they actively promoted spreading the violence to countries with actual militaries, which was only gonna end one way.

C-cute

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>It's true, though. The only reason Afghanistan was invaded to begin with was due to their harboring of Bin Laden and AQ

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

I'm glad we planned it back in 97 before we had a problem with twin towers and bin laden and everything.

largest afghani pop in the us is, I believe, in fremont ca, which is pretty much indistinguishable from the rest of urban california except for having better kebabs. somalis != afghans.

>(((en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century)))
Yikes!

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It's not like Al-Qaeda had attacked the towers before.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing

Y'all make me sick.

youtu.be/j4lp1YBxTsU

It's not like the Black Panthers had committed (failed) terror attacks. Do we need to invade and bomb Liberia because a Liberian extremist tried to bomb the WTC?

Why do you think Al Qaeda wanted to bomb the WTC in 1993? Do you think goat fuckers in Afghanistan have any more reason to want to bomb buildings in the USA today after spending 20 years bombing their country?

Do you think before you make posts? Do you actually believe the PNAC was devised as "protection from terrorism" by launching foreign wars against goat fuckers for 2 decades, urged on due to a failed WTC bombing plot?

t. literal ZOGbot

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
That was centered on removing the regime in Iraq, not Afghanistan. Also, as the other poster said, Al Qaeda was very much a known terrorist group that had attacked the WTC before. PNAC was dumb, but Afghanistan is pretty straightforward over all. The biggest issue is a lack of any path to maintain the status quo after the US and its allies leave.

Don’t kid yourself. Arab pilots in American schools are scumbags that steal and cheat from other students

Go back to Jow Forums.

Reddit is over yonder kid.

There is definitely some truth to that, but they're still intelligent enough to actually function as (mostly) contributing members of society.
t. ERAU alum

All Arabs are shit. They stole and sacked a house from a buddy hours before flying home to Saudi Arabia, went AWOL all the time at my last base to the point where families were keeping firearms on base housing just in case one of them went postal and can’t shower for some reason.

Worked around a lot of Arabs in pilot training. Many of them were absolutely abysmal at flying, had zero motivation to work/study, and were all around scumbags that shirked most responsibilities. They were only there because they were somehow related to royalty and were willing to pay whatever we charged them for the training. They never went AWOL though, after graduation they went back home to be millionaires and bomb school buses.

>be millionaires and bomb school buses
There's worse ways to live one's life. Doesn't sound too terrible. Can't feel too sympathetic when they get shot down, though.

If you can't trust them you shouldn't train them. An unlocked door is a very cheap test.

>More than 40 percent of the Afghan Air Force students enrolled in the U.S.-based training program to fly the AC-208 Combat Caravan went AWOL
And then people wonder why Afghanistan is such a shithole.

Newsflash: shitholes are shitholes for one reason and one reason only, because the locals are shit in the first place.

Shit Mexico is right across the border.
Even Mexico is better than Afghanistan. And I’m sure they’ll find work flying something.

>trusting Afghans
Are you out of your mind?

Those are Arabs. Afghans are made of tougher stuff than any Arab.

remember marcus lutrell, the navy seal who was saved by a local pashtun farmer? the lone survivor guy? the farmer saved him because he was following his people's code of honor, helping those who can't help themselves is part of part of that. those people can be alright, and i'm pretty sure you can trust many of them more than you can trust many YTs

I've a pax onboard a c130 carrying a bunch of Afghan officers. Before they got onboard we had to search them, take all their weapons and make them sit at the opposite end off the the plane with a bunch of armed guards in between them.

That code extends solely to their village, or region at most. The north and south are split, with the actual Afghan military consisting of mostly US-supporting northerners. Meanwhile, the self-defense militias established in southern villages often consist primarily of Taliban. On top of that, despite its rather long history as an independent country, Afghans have never seen themselves with a national identity of any sort outside of major cities.

That's the fucking ANA for you. I'm not even the kind of guy saying you can't trust Afghans, but you can't fucking trust an army where everyone is treated and paid like shit, when their enemy is offering them the exact opposite, good treatment and high pay, and even higher pay for their families if they commit acts against the US

Yes, but i was talking about the Pashto code of honor, and last time i checked the majority of Afghans were Pashto. Apart from that, you're right

You understand those codes only apply to other pashtuns, right? The farmer may or may not extend the favor, even to strangers, if it suits him but none of it is a law anyway. You don't trust someone because they seem nice, you trust them because you have guarantees. Learn to honor system and dual morality or keep getting fucked.

Where the fuck does the Taliban even get all that money? Opium? Russia?

The Taliban are very strict when it comes to opium, before the US invaded, it was almost gone from Afghanistan. I think the vast majority of the money comes from donors in rich arab oil states

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They get their cut of the opium that grows there, they probably also get money and support from whoever wants the US tied down in Afghanistan as long as possible. It could come from Pakistan, China, Iran, Saudis, ... a bunch of people like it that way.

>The Taliban are very strict when it comes to opium
They were but beggars can't be choosers. They get their bribe/tax money, US soldiers even found processed opium in villages they took back from the Talibans.

>And I’m sure they’ll find work flying something.

More like flying into something

Guess.
>the only answer is: to break up homogenous white areas and destroy their communities.

They did the same thing to my town in Ohio. Dumped a ton of poos and Somalis in it and now the public areas and schools are overwhelmed with inbred low-IQ shitskins who don’t pay the taxes to keep these programs afloat.

Or of flying a plane into the world trade center. Again.

Then why didn't we invade Pakistan?

because pakistan is a close ally and good customer, especially militarily. and they do allow us hunting with predators on their territory.

>Every where a Lutheran Swede goes he must be cucked

yeah when they are in their containment unit ie afghan. When they leave they become just as shitty as your next muslim

Go back to sucking cock, you argumentless twat

Same thing happened with Soviet spies in the US. They took one look at our country and realized it was the best place to live.

Kinda funny once you think about it.

You know your country is shit when people from the most elite branches of the military don't want to live in it and would rather to desert to another one.

ehh....not so much. Most immigrants you meet are doing their damnedest to integrate. Hell, a lot of them even shave so you couldn't pick them out of a crowd if you tried.

Afghanistan has seen nothing but war and terror for decades. There's more than just one generation of Afghans who know nothing but that. Of course it's a shithole. But it hasn't always been like that. And there's a certain potential to it's people, see .

I might sound like a libtard peacenik, but i really wish the people of Afghanistan a brighter future

The Romans, Chinese, Brits, and Soviets all tried to pacify the region with little to no success. I say we just blockade the region and hope it goes away.

There was an NK pilot that actually flew into SK just to surrender and ask for asylum.

In fact, so many NKs flee south that NK considers it Cassus Belli.

>graveyard of empires
i love that name. what a savage country.

That was our allies, the Saudis.

Well, good luck with that idealism of yours, bud. It's been the same corrupt shithole for thousand years due to ancient customs, islamic fundamentalism and tribalism. Every time someone pokes that hornet nest it just radicalizes the locals even more. Maybe you guys should consider stopping with your failed attempts at messianic crusades and just let them to their own devices already?

>Wants to fly after going awol from a military
>Wants to serve in any milirary in a position which requires top secret clearance

But they fund terrorism and harbored Osama for years, so your argument we just HAD to topple the taliban is wasted oxygen.

Them too, should have nuked them instead of Iraq.

Since when are Pilots cleared Top Secret?

The real answer as to why US didn't invade Pakistan is because they have nukes. Pretty much the only muslim country that has actual nuclear arsenal.

>remember marcus lutrell, the navy seal who was saved by a local pashtun farmer? the lone survivor guy?
Wasn't that story completely made up in hindsight?

no, just the particular part about his part in fighting back. he said he shot back until he was out of ammo, but the guy who saved him said they later found his weapon and all his mags, all full but one.

that farmer dude who saved him even was on visit to the US later, the story itself is true. you can even watch footage that the taliban took on youtube, and you hear lutrell shouting through the woods at one part

Iunno but same thing happened to Detroit. I think there's a couple of Lebanese guys up here though that run a party store and there's nothing wrong with them. Although they sell pulled pork sandwiches so maybe they're not muslim. Idk I feel like they're better than the average Detroit basketball aficionado though.

Many lebanese arabs are actually Christians.

Constitution of Lebanon actually says that governmental power has to be distributed in equal parts to Christians, Shia, and Sunni muslims. It's an interesting country

>AC-208 Combat Caravan
>Literally a Cesna with some hellfires taped to the wings

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Well, it was majority Christian before it got flooded by Palestinian refugees which caused the civil war and several invasions by Syria and Israel. It has been in a pretty messed up state since then.

>It has been in a pretty messed up state since then
Yes, of course. I mean, the Shia Hezbollah basically rules the country, many people don#t evne know that Lebanon has a regular military that's not the Hezbollah, too. But it's still an interesting country

Yeah, shame that it had gone that way, I think it was pretty rich before the whole thing started. At least Hezbollah is not Al-Qaeda or ISIS, so I guess it could always be worse.

So basically Lebanon is a warning as to what happens when you let Muslims into your country

see Lebanon has always been Christian and Muslim, idiot. It's more like a warning sign what happens if you let a lot of refugees in your country without the proper infrastructure and organization to deal with it.

Well not exactly muslims, but muslim refugees. Especially when those refugees are filled with radical extremists. Lebanon had muslim minority before but Christian arabs were mostly in charge. The problems started when Lebanon was flooded by large amount of Palestinian refugees, that got kicked out of Jordan because PLO tried to overthrow the Monarchy.

It's the Kalergi Plan
It's the Globalists
Who are the Globalists?
Huh well a lot of them happen to be Jews
Just a coincidence though I'm sure

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take your fucking meds, schizo. your spacing alone shows the turmoil in your brain

we gotta just close the fucking border, no more visas, no more foreign nationals in our military.

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they're not "in the military" you fucking imbecile, they were ANA pilots who went to the US for training. that's a regular thing to do for any nation, just right now, there's 300 IDF jews in Germany, training forest warfare. what the fuck is wrong with you

>What went wrong?
Babysitting countries that aren't real Colonies will never work.