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Naval flight training resumes for Saudi students
« on: February 26, 2020, 10:41:31 pm »
Navy Times by Courtney Mabeus 2/26/2020

 Saudi Arabian students resumed Navy flight training Tuesday, nearly three months after a massacre at Naval Air Station Pensacola by one of their comrades left three dead in a shooting that U.S. leaders linked to terrorism.

Saudi Royal Air and Naval Forces officers in the Navy’s flight training pipeline were restricted to classroom studies or put those studies on hold while the sea service met new requirements on base access and vetting for international military students put in place by the Secretary of Defense following the Dec. 6 shooting by Saudi Royal Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani.

That total includes 64 Saudi students at commands at the Pensacola base and another 26 at the Naval Station Mayport-based Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 40, Naval Education and Training Command spokesperson Cmdr. James Stockman told Navy Times.

More: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/02/26/naval-flight-training-resumes-for-saudi-students/

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Re: Naval flight training resumes for Saudi students
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2020, 02:41:53 pm »
Just make sure they know how to land...on runways.
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