Recovered/Located MA - 2 Afghan military officers 'go missing after training in US', Camp Edwards, Sept 2018

[JerseyGirl]

Two Afghan military officers who were in the US on a training mission reportedly went missing after they failed to board their flight home.

The two were attending training at Camp Edwards in Massachusetts last week. More than 200 soldiers from five nations attended the joint exercises.

Afghan soldiers 'go missing in US visit'

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Eh, that's a surprise. Not.

 

[The Farm]

Eh, that's a surprise. Not.

No surprise to me.

 

[kirkassoc]

Coming to a city near you .......

From the above article:

"Given the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and the fact that Afghan trainees who violate the terms of their visas suffer virtually no consequences for going Awol (except for the possible return to Afghanistan)... the Awol rate is likely to either remain steady or increase," the inspector general wrote in the report, released in October 2017.

 

[Elley Mae]

Eh, that's a surprise. Not.

Thought I saw where 2 went missing a few months ago, found this.

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More than 150 Afghan trainees have gone AWOL in US, report finds

More than 150 Afghan trainees have gone AWOL in US, report finds

According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, 13 of the 152 who had gone AWOL were still at large as of March 7 of this year. Seventy of the 152 had fled the United States; 39 gained legal status in the U.S.; and 27 were arrested, removed or in the process of being removed from the U.S. Three no longer were AWOL or returned to their training base in the U.S.