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coldwarvet

I went to Security Specialist training @ Lackland AFB 1/76. I remember this large contingency of middle easterners going through some kind of training at Lackland at the time. I remember specifically going to my PO Box and the Middle Easterners must have ate allot of garlic or something because they sure stunk up the place.

Anyways at the time I knew they were Muslims and I knew Muslims were the enemy of Israel and I thought it to be odd that we would be cooperating with an enemy of Israel when I thought Israel was our friend.

Can anyone shed some light on this odd memory I have?

CWV
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Wing Wiper · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure about 76, but in 73 I was at Lowry in Denver taking the F-4E Fire Control (RADAR) course and we had a full class of Iranians right next door. We used to take breaks with them and got to know them pretty well. The guys you were seeing might well have been Iranians, too.

Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

Hubs went to A-school in the early 70's with Saudi and Iranian military students. Their governments paid the US for their schooling and the students apparently had WADS of cash with them, always.

By the time I came in, in 1979, I guess we weren't doing that any more, because I don't remember any Middle-Eastern students at Millington. (Aircraft mechanic, Av. Elec. Tech, Air Controlman, and Av. Metalsmiths, I think, were all there?)

But, in the late 80's and again in the mid-90's, hubs did two tours as instructor pilot and there were lots of Saudi flight students at Whiting Field.
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blue9t3 · Admiral Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 1246 Location: oregon

That funky stink is thier natural odor, they eat alot of curry and it comes out in thier sweat. I dont know how they can get dates? Shocked

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coldwarvet · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the replies. At least I now I know that my memory is OK.

CWV
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I B Squidly · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:29 am Post subject:

Coldwarvet:

The Shah commissioned and paid for four 'Kidd' class destroyers, modified Spru' cans that before the Burke class were the most advanced and powerful destroyers afloat. Navy 'A' schools were filled with Iranis qualifiing for the ship's advanced systems. After the Ayatolla took over we kept them Wink

Designed for Persian Gulf duty the Kidd class gave excellant service during the 'Tanker War' in the 80s.
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