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Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: Huh??? ()
Date: December 09, 2019 03:26PM

This seems like a terrible idea...

What if we ever have to fight a war flying our jets against pilots from a nation whose pilot's we trained?

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: byvvu ()
Date: December 09, 2019 03:38PM

Saudi Arabia has had its own Air Force for decades. But they would rather pay (or not) some other country to train their pilots because of their caste system. I'm a pilot, not a trainer mentality. It would be degrading to the existing pilots to train other Saudis because they would appear inferior.

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: Human Tripod ()
Date: December 09, 2019 03:59PM

"We need the dues"...

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: To sell planes ()
Date: December 09, 2019 04:04PM

Was stationed at LUKE AFB during the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.
Had tons of Saudi pilots receiving training bc they were buying US planes!!!
DUHHHH

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: Forrest.Hump ()
Date: December 09, 2019 04:28PM

For sure...selling our hardware, even if it is outdated, and training foreign personnel to use it is really fucked up policy.

Sure, the Saudis are our allies today and have been for decades but...global relationships can change very quickly. It's not like we can recover our hardware if an allied nation to us goes rogue.

Cash flow is nice but, we're not going to be around to spend it some Saudi fucknut shoves a missile up our ass...

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: j7e96 ()
Date: December 09, 2019 04:39PM

To sell planes Wrote:
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> Was stationed at LUKE AFB during the invasion of
> Kuwait by Iraq.
> Had tons of Saudi pilots receiving training bc
> they were buying US planes!!!
> DUHHHH


Then let Boeing, McDonnel Douglas, Northrup train the mother fuckers. They are the ones selling the shit, not the U.S. Military. The Military/Govt. just authorizes the sale of weapons. The aircraft manufacturers train our pilots on their new aircraft and once those dudes are up to speed they take over training responsibilities. The Saudi's could do the same thing with their air force.

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: Trump.4Evuh ()
Date: December 09, 2019 05:42PM

j7e96 Wrote:
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> To sell planes Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Was stationed at LUKE AFB during the invasion
> of
> > Kuwait by Iraq.
> > Had tons of Saudi pilots receiving training bc
> > they were buying US planes!!!
> > DUHHHH
>
>
> Then let Boeing, McDonnel Douglas, Northrup train
> the mother fuckers. They are the ones selling the
> shit, not the U.S. Military. The Military/Govt.
> just authorizes the sale of weapons. The aircraft
> manufacturers train our pilots on their new
> aircraft and once those dudes are up to speed they
> take over training responsibilities. The Saudi's
> could do the same thing with their air force.

Seriously, I'm pretty fucking sure the weapons' manufacturers know more about the shut they designed and built than the military does. Shit, who the fuck trains U.S. troops? The manufacturer.

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: Aero Eng ()
Date: December 09, 2019 07:44PM

Every aircraft sold to foreign militaries has a remote, backdoor self-destruct kill-switch in case the “ally” goes negative.

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: Chuck.Yeager ()
Date: December 09, 2019 08:30PM

Aero Eng Wrote:
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> Every aircraft sold to foreign militaries has a
> remote, backdoor self-destruct kill-switch in case
> the “ally” goes negative.

Citation needed...

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: h9vkx ()
Date: December 09, 2019 08:37PM

Aero Eng Wrote:
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> Every aircraft sold to foreign militaries has a
> remote, backdoor self-destruct kill-switch in case
> the “ally” goes negative.


Sure they do. Imagine some disgruntled employee sends the code and blows up the entire Australian Air Force.

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: So it begins ()
Date: December 09, 2019 09:07PM

And so the blame game starts. He was "infuriated" when an instructor made fun of his moustache. They are going to find every reason in the book to say that he was not personally responsible for the shooting. Big mean Americans just pushed him too far. He could have quit and run back to Saudi Arabia and beat his wife and raped young boys to make himself feel better. That is what THEY do.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gunman-deadly-shooting-became-furious-131738938.html

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: warplanes ()
Date: December 09, 2019 10:00PM

Chuck.Yeager Wrote:
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> Aero Eng Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Every aircraft sold to foreign militaries has a
> > remote, backdoor self-destruct kill-switch in
> case
> > the “ally” goes negative.
>
> Citation needed...


They don't have a "backdoor self-destruct kill-switch" but I guarantee those foreign military sales don't include the "full package". Customers get great warplanes, minus the super high-tech functional stuff we keep for our own. The military is not stupid. They don't export advantages.

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Re: Why does the U.S. military train foreign national pilots?
Posted by: 911 ()
Date: December 09, 2019 10:24PM

We trained the 911 terrorists. Bush then collected millions from the Saudis.

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