Anonymous ID: 1dd87c May 6, 2019, 1:54 p.m. No.6431513   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

US-Based Training for Afghan Pilots Halted as Half of Class Goes AWOL in America

 

A pilot training program at a Texas airfield for the Afghan Air Force has quietly been moved back to Afghanistan after nearly half of the class went AWOL. Many of them fled to Canada and requested asylum. A journalist told Sputnik it was a sign of just how fast both conditions in the country and its military are deteriorating.

 

According to a quarterly report published April 30 by the US government's oversight group SIGAR, or the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, 40% of Afghan pilots brought to the US for special training disappeared from the classroom, going absent without leave, or AWOL.

 

https://sputniknews.com/asia/201905061074764779-US-Based-Training-Afghan-Pilots-Halted-Half-AWOL/