Fox News reports that now in US custody is a former Air Force airplane mechanic who was fired from his job fixing airplanes as a private citizen who decided that ISIS would be a better, more reliable employer;
Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, of Asbury Park, N.J., was arrested Jan. 16, before he could carry out his plan to join the black-clad jihadist army, authorities said. He was indicted on two counts of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and obstruction of justice, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a news release.
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Pugh was an Air Force avionics instrument system specialist who received training in the installation and maintenance of aircraft engine, navigation and weapons systems, prosecutors said. After leaving the Air Force, Pugh worked for companies in the United States and Middle East and had lived abroad for over a year before his arrest.
Prosecutors say he tried to join ISIS after he was fired from a job as an airplane mechanic somewhere in the Middle East, traveling from Egypt to Turkey in a bid to cross into Syria to join ISIS. Turkish authorities nabbed Pugh at the border Jan. 10 and sent him back to Egypt, prosecutors said.
ISIS really missed out – I’m sure they would have use for an airplane mechanic. I’m not sure he thought this all the way through. Life with ISIS probably isn’t much like the military life that he’d be accustomed to as an avionics mechanic. If he was able to keep his noggin attached to his shoulders.
EX-Air Force airplane mechanic tries to join ISIS….”EX”.
/not like PH2
Screw him. Make him another “Philip Nolan”.
There never runs out of new ways to spell…STUPID!!!
Let’s see – working for them he could feel separation anxiety – for his head from his shoulders?
Tairod? Well, it’s better than Balljoint.
Firing squad. Pronto.
Nah. Hang him by his testicles, then beat him like a cheap pinata.
Y’know, I said the same thing on r/AirForce and immediately got shouted down and accused of being “what’s wrong with this country”.
Maybe someone should take a careful look at the planes hes’ worked on already. Then the big shit head should be duct taped to bottom of a plane and sent to Easter Island, I’m feeling religious today.
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Dave Hardin…Thank you brother! You have NO idea how much I needed a laugh this afternoon and that was it.
Should have let the Turks keep and dispose of his ass as they saw fit.
Ya see this is the kind of thing that bothers me. Why didnt the Gate Guard just wish him a ‘Blessed Day’ and let him through.
Its not legal to shoot him here……just sayin.
Just another example that the siren song and allure of “Man Love Thursday” is too strong for some people to resist.
In the words/voice of Red Foreman: Dumbass !!
His ass and Red’s boot could do with an introduction…
Let me guess. He’s Episcopalian, right?
Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh. Well, there you go. His freakin’ first name is Tairod?
Consider hiring him–if he gets out of prison before you retire:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tairod-pugh/44/618/957
Tie-rod, huh? Must’ve been an auto mechanic before he went into aviation.
Google search reveals him wearing Muslim garb & beard, and a NJ local news article quotes him as mentioning Allah, so I think he’s really a Southern Baptist instead.
They should have let him into Syria – he could have seen all that USAF ordnance from the other end.
http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_former-iraqi-pilots-train-isil-fighters-on-mig-jets_361959.html Has this been independently verified? Old boy could have had a job after all. Not that it takes more than a blind Nigerian, a dimestore socket set, a pair of tin snips, and a roll of foil tape to fix anything on a MiG-21.
An Iraqi trained ISIL pilot in a Nigerian maintained MiG-21.
Every F/A-18 jock’s wet dream.
I could shoot one of those down with a .44 Mag from a Super Cub.
…Which actually happened in the closing days of WW2, except it was an M1911A1. 🙂
Why people keep saying ISIL?
Its starting to really piss me off. Internet anger building up against Zerobama and his ISIL fad.
F%*$ing Pointy-Heads……
typical grinners, am I right?
No, just a knuckle-dragging engine mech here, with crew-chief x-training….
For the USAF, it’s a -friendly- rivalry between the “grease-monkeys” (crew chiefs, engine and hydraulic specialists) vs. the “pointy-heads” (avionics/guidance-control, comm/nav and electrical specialists).
Even though a LOT of people can “swing both ways” these days, with down-sizing and more and more cross-training. Especially in AFSOC helicopter operations.
I just bet he was the pride of his platoon, enjoy jail you shit bag.
Obviously he’s just trying to turn his life around with the ISIS jobs programs. If only the United States had jobs programs for islamists …..
The Air Force Times article says he seperated in 1990 after four years of service…as an E-3. Seems he has been a dirtbag for awhile.
E-4 is a gimme after three years of keeping your nose clean in the AF, It’s possible to make it at 2.5 years, so this guy must have been real special. I should know; after a couple of, ahem, poor decisions, even I managed to sew on E-4 after 3 years and 3 months or so.