Posted on Sep 29, 2016
7 Afghan military students AWOL from U.S. posts
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FORT BENNING, Ga. — Officials say seven Afghan military students in four states have been absent without leave since earlier this month.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports U.S. Navy Defense Press Operations commander Patrick L. Evans said in an email Thursday that four students left their posts without leave over the Labor Day weekend. Two of the students were at Fort Benning in Georgia, while one was at Fort Lee, Virginia, and the other in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Evans says three more students — two at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and one at Fort Gordon, Georgia — were discovered missing the weekend of Sept. 17.
Evans says most Afghan military students who train in the U.S. return to their country, but officials have in the past uncovered some students' plans to go AWOL.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports U.S. Navy Defense Press Operations commander Patrick L. Evans said in an email Thursday that four students left their posts without leave over the Labor Day weekend. Two of the students were at Fort Benning in Georgia, while one was at Fort Lee, Virginia, and the other in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Evans says three more students — two at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and one at Fort Gordon, Georgia — were discovered missing the weekend of Sept. 17.
Evans says most Afghan military students who train in the U.S. return to their country, but officials have in the past uncovered some students' plans to go AWOL.
7 Afghan military students AWOL from U.S. posts
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You always have to eyeball the foreign troops. They need protection from an overzealous public and they are also tempted to NOT go back to the craphole that allowed them to train in the US. In the worst case scenario, they just infiltrated the US and are closest to their support channels. Either way, they need to get policed up ASAP.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL The Drill or 'student' 1SG should be hanging by his thumbs for not doing more, thorough head counts! Their'Battles' must be outstanding troops also!
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They get left all me over the weekend. They get a post decal to travel on and off post. With that they can go anywhere. They are gone boss.
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CSM Charles Hayden
SFC (Join to see) Sorry about that. Freedom of the post? POV w/ decal? Those guys must be subject to one of those screwball ROEs!
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Hard to say. Each post has its own rules now days. Here at Benning they get a piece of paper and an ID card when they get here to let them on and off post. The WINSEC guys get more freedom. those are the South American paramilitary guys. Most are from Columbia so I think they are going back to train their "friends".CSM Charles Hayden -
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There have been other story(ies) on this same subject. The last one I read involved several flight students training to be pilots in the Afgan Air Force. At least one or two of them were captured trying to cross into Canada. This is an example of the type of people we are fighting and dying for, and have died for in the past. Such a tragic misadventure and sacrifice of good people.
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SPC Erich Guenther
To be fair to the Afghans, this is somewhat normal for other foreign training in the United States I believe some of the Central Americans jumped the fence at Ft. Benning school of the Americas during our training of Central American Armies in the 1980's. People just get homesick overseas and change their mind and decide the Army is not for them. Americans do the same.
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