{"id":68320,"date":"2016-10-06T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68320"},"modified":"2016-10-06T08:49:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T12:49:53","slug":"nearly-4-dozen-afghan-troops-awol-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68320","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 4 dozen Afghan troops AWOL in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon reports that about 44 Afghan soldiers training in the United States have gone over the hill in the past few years, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/10\/06\/dozens-afghan-troops-training-in-us-have-reportedly-vanished-from-military-bases.html\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the frequency of Afghan troops disappearing from military training was truly concerning and \u201cout of the ordinary.\u201d Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said that eight Afghan troops have left bases without permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;The Defense Department is assessing ways to strengthen eligibility criteria for training in ways that will reduce the likelihood of an individual Afghan willingly absconding from training in the U.S. and going AWOL,\u201d Stump said.<\/p>\n<p>Afghans who train at U.S. military bases are vetted to make sure they don\u2019t have a sketchy background or ties to militant groups in the Middle East, Stump added. The defense official told Reuters there was no evidence that those who vanished posed any threat to the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s reassuring. Most of the Afghans who killed US troops in Afghanistan during the surge of green-on-blue insider attacks were supposedly &#8220;vetted&#8221; by the Afghanistan government, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon reports that about 44 Afghan soldiers training in the United States have gone over &hellip; <a title=\"Nearly 4 dozen Afghan troops AWOL in the US\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68320\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nearly 4 dozen Afghan troops AWOL in the US<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}