Afghan Military Officers AWOL from Lackland AFB, whereabouts unknown

#tcot #redco #GWOT #military

This is just great....perhaps someone should check flight schools. Perhaps they aren't wannabe terrorists, perhaps they just want to be here because American is so much better than their home country...but who knows? Perhaps once they catch an episode Desperate Housewives they'll decide we all need to die because of our debauchery. The kicker is this program has been going on for two years...and they've been dissapearing for that long.

Even the most ardent anti-big government types think (wrongly) that the only thing the government does well is the Military. It is a huge bureaucracy where the bulk of the work is done by very young people.....what could go wrong? If leadership is lacking (like apparently it is here) bad things can happen.

Seventeen Afghan military officers and enlistees have gone AWOL from a Lackland AFB language school over the past 18 months, the Air Force said Thursday.

The troops, enrolled in the Defense Language Institute English Language Center, were among 21 foreign military service personnel to go absent without leave since 2009, with one — an Iraqi — reappearing in Houston, where he sought political asylum.

Just what happened to the foreign troops isn't clear. The Air Force said the cases were given to the Department of Homeland Security once the officers and enlistees disappeared.

“They were students at the defense language school and once they complete their training at DLI they go to another assignment,” said Dave Smith, a spokesman for the Air Education and Training Command at Randolph AFB. “If they choose to leave the language school and return to their own country without telling us, they can do that. We just don't know.” STORY HERE