A dream comes true for 7 pilots

[CENTCOM]

Many over the course of the decade-long WOT have accused the U.S. and NATO of destroying Afghanistan. That this is far from the truth becomes clear when you interpret the facts of the current situation. The people of Afghanistan are witnessing changes that they simply could not imagine under Taliban rule, and are now enjoying the freedom to choose the course of their future. While it would be premature to say that our job is done, we are confident that Afghanistan is on the path to peace and prosperity.

One recent event exemplifies the many positive developments taking place in Afghanistan and shows how far the nation has come. According to U.S. Air force officials, Afghanistan held its first undergraduate pilot training program inside the country in over 30 years. The seven Afghan students that are part of this program celebrated the initial phase of their pilot training on February 2nd. This is quite an accomplishment for a nation that did not even have an army few years ago. According to U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James Bands, “The last time a pilot training course was given in Afghanistan was given by the Russians prior to their departure in the early 90’s, and most of the training received by the Afghan (students) during that era was accomplished in Russia.”

We congratulate these students and the nation of Afghanistan on this great accomplishment. We are confident that these pilots and others to follow will help secure a bright future for Afghanistan.


Maj David Nevers
DET-United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

 

[Sugarcane]

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[fd24]

Many over the course of the decade-long WOT have accused the U.S. and NATO of destroying Afghanistan. That this is far from the truth becomes clear when you interpret the facts of the current situation. The people of Afghanistan are witnessing changes that they simply could not imagine under Taliban rule, and are now enjoying the freedom to choose the course of their future. While it would be premature to say that our job is done, we are confident that Afghanistan is on the path to peace and prosperity.

One recent event exemplifies the many positive developments taking place in Afghanistan and shows how far the nation has come. According to U.S. Air force officials, Afghanistan held its first undergraduate pilot training program inside the country in over 30 years. The seven Afghan students that are part of this program celebrated the initial phase of their pilot training on February 2nd. This is quite an accomplishment for a nation that did not even have an army few years ago. According to U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James Bands, “The last time a pilot training course was given in Afghanistan was given by the Russians prior to their departure in the early 90’s, and most of the training received by the Afghan (students) during that era was accomplished in Russia.”

We congratulate these students and the nation of Afghanistan on this great accomplishment. We are confident that these pilots and others to follow will help secure a bright future for Afghanistan.


Maj David Nevers
DET-United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

Wow - well done - a remarkable achievement in 10 years of success after success stories.
btw Please teach your own soldiers to stop burning the Quran.

Lt General Superkaif
Pakistan Defence

 

[JonAsad]

superkaif dont tempt the BOT- it got limitations you know -

 

[Respect4Respect01]

Wow - well done - a remarkable achievement in 10 years of success after success stories.
btw Please teach your own soldiers to stop burning the Quran.

Lt General Superkaif
Pakistan Defence

like i said before most american soldiers are high school drop outs, what do u expect from them brother.

 

[OrionHunter]

The people of Afghanistan are witnessing changes that they simply could not imagine under Taliban rule, and are now enjoying the freedom to choose the course of their future. While it would be premature to say that our job is done, we are confident that Afghanistan is on the path to peace and prosperity.

Maj David Nevers
DET-United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

Oh really? That is going to be pretty short lived! Just you wait and see what happens once the Taliban take over the reins in Afghanistan after the Americans/ISAF depart. It will be back to the stone ages. Just like the horrors witnessed a decade ago when the Taliban were at the helm.

 

[Deno]

NATO is ten times better than Taliban... Anyone who can say otherwise is off the hook... In Talibans rule even radio and tv were banned because they were ''infidels invention''.....

Taliban slaughtered women for not being ''moral'' enough... Taliban slaughtered people for not believing what those religious psychos believed in....

And US is worse than Taliban because they burned a book... just a book that some people believe to be words of Allah(cc) and four idiotic teenagers pissing on a death man.

First one is idiotic thinking that there are millions of religious people would flip off to that... That means they are idiots not monsters like Taliban...

Second one is just 4-5 monsters who do what monsters do...

What NATO did in this 10 years cannot even be equel to what Taliban did in 1 year if not a month... Even Iran supported US in Afghanistan...

Please spare us this nonsense... You people are very happy with Iran's mullahs who started Shia/Sunni war in Iraq and caused tens of thousands of death and you hate US for being in Afghanistan and being ten times the governor the Taliban was...

Hate US for attacking Iraq for oil and weapon companies or hate US for bombing Pakistani civilians but about Afghanistan people need to stop this nonsense... Even Iran supported US in Afghanistan...

 

[soldierofallah]

Hahaha foolish americans, everyday ur soldiers are being raped by the taliban in afghanistan. u have brought no change to afghanistan but terror. there are many ways to get into afghanistan but only one way to get out. if pak never allowed the nato supply lane to pass than by now u would have deffinately been defeated lol keep on dreaming americans, keep living in ur kuku land

 

[Rockford]

Hahaha foolish americans, everyday ur soldiers are being raped by the taliban in afghanistan. u have brought no change to afghanistan but terror. there are many ways to get into afghanistan but only one way to get out. if pak never allowed the nato supply lane to pass than by now u would have deffinately been defeated lol keep on dreaming americans, keep living in ur kuku land

What was earlier in the Taliban regime , nothing but terror in the hearts and minds of the ordinary citizens of the country , So many foolish restrictions and religious embargoes that will even shame a typical medieval kingdom .

 

[Al Bhatti]

superkaif dont tempt the BOT- it got limitations you know -

Attempting to try to make him reply

Many over the course of the decade-long WOT have accused the U.S. and NATO of destroying Afghanistan. That this is far from the truth becomes clear when you interpret the facts of the current situation. The people of Afghanistan are witnessing changes that they simply could not imagine under Taliban rule, and are now enjoying the freedom to choose the course of their future. While it would be premature to say that our job is done, we are confident that Afghanistan is on the path to peace and prosperity.

One recent event exemplifies the many positive developments taking place in Afghanistan and shows how far the nation has come. According to U.S. Air force officials, Afghanistan held its first undergraduate pilot training program inside the country in over 30 years. The seven Afghan students that are part of this program celebrated the initial phase of their pilot training on February 2nd. This is quite an accomplishment for a nation that did not even have an army few years ago. According to U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James Bands, “The last time a pilot training course was given in Afghanistan was given by the Russians prior to their departure in the early 90’s, and most of the training received by the Afghan (students) during that era was accomplished in Russia.”

We congratulate these students and the nation of Afghanistan on this great accomplishment. We are confident that these pilots and others to follow will help secure a bright future for Afghanistan.


Maj David Nevers
DET-United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

Centcom are your parents naturalized or are they from the Red Indians ancestry?

Al Bhatti
Colonel
Pakistan Defence

 

[boris]

Many over the course of the decade-long WOT have accused the U.S. and NATO of destroying Afghanistan. That this is far from the truth becomes clear when you interpret the facts of the current situation. The people of Afghanistan are witnessing changes that they simply could not imagine under Taliban rule, and are now enjoying the freedom to choose the course of their future. While it would be premature to say that our job is done, we are confident that Afghanistan is on the path to peace and prosperity.

One recent event exemplifies the many positive developments taking place in Afghanistan and shows how far the nation has come. According to U.S. Air force officials, Afghanistan held its first undergraduate pilot training program inside the country in over 30 years. The seven Afghan students that are part of this program celebrated the initial phase of their pilot training on February 2nd. This is quite an accomplishment for a nation that did not even have an army few years ago. According to U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James Bands, “The last time a pilot training course was given in Afghanistan was given by the Russians prior to their departure in the early 90’s, and most of the training received by the Afghan (students) during that era was accomplished in Russia.”

We congratulate these students and the nation of Afghanistan on this great accomplishment. We are confident that these pilots and others to follow will help secure a bright future for Afghanistan.


Maj David Nevers
DET-United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

I disagree that the US,ISAF has done damage to A'stan the US,NATO,ISAF has liberated Afghans from Taliban,Al-Qaeda,built new Infrastructure,moved them towards modernization,give them a modern structured military.The Soviets destroyed A'stan and left a big mess for the world to clean up.

I congratulate the USAF on this accomplishment.

and a big hoo-ah to you Sir from my side.

 

[Imran Khan]

oohh very nice after killing thousands they also make 10 pilots which is great victory of WOT man wow really i impressed by USA .they also teach there own pilots which cant difference between regular solders and terrorists at salalla post shamelessly they fire 2 hours on solders of an so called ally with cold blood .

BTW these quraan burn piss on dead take images with dead for proud cut body parts of dead for war trophy show real mindset of Americans are not less then taliban .both are barbaric terrorists killers and cold blood semi humans .


General Imran Khan
Pakistan Defence

 

[gubbi]

superkaif dont tempt the BOT- it got limitations you know -

In this new digitally connected world, a little Google'ing will help update your knowledge. If only....

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U.S. Military Goes Online to Rebut Extremists’ Messages

Mr. Safavi works as part of the Digital Engagement Team, established in 2008 by the military’s Central Command to “counter extremist ideology, promote cultural awareness and explain U.S. interests,” said Maj. David E. Nevers, the team’s chief officer, who must approve all responses before they are posted on foreign-language Web sites.

The team includes 20 native speakers of Arabic, Dari, Persian, Pashto, Urdu and Russian, the latter a shared language across the Muslim countries of the former Soviet states of Central Asia. Given that Central Command is responsible for military actions in an arc of instability stretching from the Indian Ocean across the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, people here call their headquarters “Tampa-stan.”

And thats the reason why there is a "Professional" tag with the user handle.


@Maj. David Nevers = It would be much appreciated if there was more proactive participation from DET in many related matters discussed in this forum.