TLDR: Qatar is essentially establishing a barracks/Office for its Airforce Pilots on a U.S Airforce Base. So they can receive training to fly F-15s. Given they just bought nearly 50 of them. Any Pilots they send there for training are subsequently under U.S Supervision.
Despite what the cope and seethe online is. No part of the installation is under foreign control. They’re literally just getting beds to sleep in. An Office for paperwork. And space in classes the Air Force is already hosting anyway. Several other countries have similar facilities currently on various bases. Or formerly had them in the past.
Being honest. They may not have even gotten that if we didn’t have to smooth over diplomatic feathers because of the bloody Israelis.
Is that a good idea?? I’m thinking that maybe Qatar is helping the WHs. I suspect they’re right in the middle of the trafficking routes and close to the water. It’s very close to Dubai in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia to the south.
Singapore has had pilots training at Mt Home AFB for a while. Qatar will probably be building living quarters and amenities for their pilots training there.
I wonder if the Mormons will be recruiting them?? 😁😁
The Saudis are an arrogant lot, arrogant and condescending. The Omanis on the other have are an excellent lot, friendly, courteous but watch out for their practical jokes.
It’s mostly semantics. They have a ‘Presence’ but they don’t have a base.
Who it is usually depends on training needs and what equipment they just bought. They come and go over the years. They usually get stuck in empty/underutilized parts of our various bases and allowed to sit in on ongoing training we already have going for our own guys. Currently it’s the Netherlands, Singapore, and RAF. Netherlands and RAF both focusing on the F-35. Singapore on the F-15.
Only permanent foreign presences I know of off hand. NATO member states send pilots for training on joint operations/cooperation to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. Though that’s less a permanent presence and more Sheppard just has the infrastructure in place already. So if any joint Airforce NATO training occurs. It’s usually there.
The German Army maintains an R&D/Logistics Office in Virginia. Largely its main concern is purchasing equipment and coordinating joint research projects with American Defense Contractors and the Military and their opposite numbers in Germany. And it’s mostly there because of German bureaucracy requiring a near perpetually staffed liaison/acquisition office.
TLDR: Qatar is essentially establishing a barracks/Office for its Airforce Pilots on a U.S Airforce Base. So they can receive training to fly F-15s. Given they just bought nearly 50 of them. Any Pilots they send there for training are subsequently under U.S Supervision.
Despite what the cope and seethe online is. No part of the installation is under foreign control. They’re literally just getting beds to sleep in. An Office for paperwork. And space in classes the Air Force is already hosting anyway. Several other countries have similar facilities currently on various bases. Or formerly had them in the past.
Being honest. They may not have even gotten that if we didn’t have to smooth over diplomatic feathers because of the bloody Israelis.
training facility, not a base
Well THAT makes more sense...
I almost had to:
u/#wtf
eXspecially with all the muzzy call to prayer wake up alarms going off lately...
Will they use SLAVE LABOR & material from CHINA? 🤔🤪😮
No. S Korea is cheaper nowadays.
Training the Qatar pilots because we sold them fighter jets
Is that a good idea?? I’m thinking that maybe Qatar is helping the WHs. I suspect they’re right in the middle of the trafficking routes and close to the water. It’s very close to Dubai in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia to the south.
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Ok, who put the dead fish in Hegseth back seat? Phewww 🤢🤥
Singapore has had pilots training at Mt Home AFB for a while. Qatar will probably be building living quarters and amenities for their pilots training there.
I wonder if the Mormons will be recruiting them?? 😁😁
Huh??? whose air force will be there??
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I hope the Qatari trainee pilots are friendlier to us than the Saudis at NAS Pensacola.
The Saudis are an arrogant lot, arrogant and condescending. The Omanis on the other have are an excellent lot, friendly, courteous but watch out for their practical jokes.
Huh. I'd never thought about all the countries we have bases in but as far as I know no countries have bases in ours.
Well, officially anyway lol
It’s mostly semantics. They have a ‘Presence’ but they don’t have a base.
Who it is usually depends on training needs and what equipment they just bought. They come and go over the years. They usually get stuck in empty/underutilized parts of our various bases and allowed to sit in on ongoing training we already have going for our own guys. Currently it’s the Netherlands, Singapore, and RAF. Netherlands and RAF both focusing on the F-35. Singapore on the F-15.
Only permanent foreign presences I know of off hand. NATO member states send pilots for training on joint operations/cooperation to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. Though that’s less a permanent presence and more Sheppard just has the infrastructure in place already. So if any joint Airforce NATO training occurs. It’s usually there.
The German Army maintains an R&D/Logistics Office in Virginia. Largely its main concern is purchasing equipment and coordinating joint research projects with American Defense Contractors and the Military and their opposite numbers in Germany. And it’s mostly there because of German bureaucracy requiring a near perpetually staffed liaison/acquisition office.
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