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Navy admits expanding Saudi terrorist pilot training program

https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=111443

Without background checks.

From a dozen in in the Twin Tower Saudi terrorist attacks on Sept. 11th, 2001 to 852 as of three weeks ago.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/u-s-grounds-saudi-pilots-halts-military-training-after-base-shooting

Congress approved a three-year budget of $389,617,037 for the Saudi terrorist training program divvied up between the:

  • Navy

  • State Department (DOS)

  • Department of Defense (DOD)

The money was for:

  • next year

  • this year

  • last year

Source is a 458-page Congressional report released in April.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fmt_vol1_16_17.pdf

It was written by the:

  • Department of Defense (DOD)

  • Department of State (DOS)

A second report was written Nov. 27th, 2017.

It has 318-pages.

The data on money spent for Saudi Arabia in pilot training is imaged here:

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fmt_vol2_17_18.pdf

That was for 5200 Saudi Arabia pilot trainees.

Or $24,975.45 per pilot.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fmt_vol1_16_17.pdf

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fmt_vol1_16_17.pdf

https://fas.org/asmp/campaigns/training.html

The cost was a trillion dollars when all 155 countries were included.

$953,900,000 to be exact.

The report has 58,500 line item expenses spread over 318-pages.

The Pentagon’s budget is less than that.

$892 million.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fmt_vol2_17_18.pdf

The Navy admits expanding its Saudi terrorist trainee pilot program.

The State Department issued:

  • more than 980,000 temporary, non-citizen, immigrant visas to Saudi nationals over the last ten years

  • 5,500 temporary visas were issued this year to Saudi military personnel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/07/saudis-have-come-us-military-training-decades-heres-why-how/

https://www.navy.mil/viewGallery.asp?id=0&page=13252&r=4

Other stories:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/10/navy-grounds-saudi-pilot-trainees-pensacola-after-shooting-rampage/4390189002/

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/10/07/a-botched-program-to-train-saudi-pilots-for-war-in-yemen-cost-a-us-army-aviator-his-life/

https://www.dsca.mil/programs/international-military-education-training-imet

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/12/06/nas-pensacola-naval-base-shooting-suspect-saudi-aviation-student/4353949002/

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/desantis-urges-increased-vetting-foreign-nationals-after-pensacola-shooting

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/desantis-urges-increased-vetting-foreign-nationals-after-pensacola-shooting