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Decision on Saudi unit at base expected soon

Friday, June 10, 2011
A crew chief from the Royal Saudi Air Force marshals out an F-15S during a training exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Months of negotiations between the United States and Saudi Arabia could lead to the stand up of a second foreign military training unit at Mountain Home Air Force Base.

City officials and the Air Force are anxiously awaiting a decision by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to place a training squadron at Mountain Home Air Force Base.

The Air Force and the Department of Defense have signed off on the agreement following months of negotiations to base the squadron here, which could have a major positive economic impact on this community. The kingdom is currently in the process of reviewing the final documents. A Saudi decision is expected before the end of this month.

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  • why would anyone be looking foreward to this,, what a bad idea

    instead of Saudi base , which is really an insult to the United States,, we should have the Mexican Military training here, not Saudi

    we train Canada Military,,, why not mexico

    but Saudi,, wake up and get real people

    -- Posted by Freedom on Sat, Jun 11, 2011, at 8:40 AM

  • Check this link out.... And if you scroll down you will see they mention bazookaman and Opinionmissy

    http://www.thenextwar.info/2011/03/pentagon-training-saudi-pilots-idaho.html

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sat, Jun 11, 2011, at 9:55 AM

  • MsM:

    That has been out for some time. Nice job on your research---it was fairly hard to find.

    I still feel the same as I did when I wrote that and I am not going to say that I am sorry for it. Training terrorists on our own military bases is wrong no matter how you try to spin it and make it right. Saudi is not our friend.

    This is wrong. As for the MHAFB Spokesperson and our Idaho political "leaders"...they are sell outs. We said we would never forget 911. It would appear that we have.

    As a Jewish American, I have no desire to have Saudi here. It will do nothing for this community.

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Sat, Jun 11, 2011, at 9:09 PM

  • CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS A GOOD IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! POSITIVE ECONOMIC IMPACT!! HOW ABOUT POSITIVE "LETS SHOW EM HOW TO "REALLY" WREAK HAVOC IN AMERICA". OMG, WHAT ARE THEY SMOKIN??? SOOO, DO THEY GET TO PRACTICE WITH LIVE AMMO?? ALLIES TODAY ENEMIES TOMORROW........

    -- Posted by congodawn on Sun, Jun 12, 2011, at 5:33 PM

  • grow up people

    -- Posted by county_aware on Mon, Jun 13, 2011, at 8:46 AM

  • Only reason I think its a bad idea is shown within these comments along with the earlier news story about this topic.

    Too much ignorant racism. All its going to take is for one incident to make all of the Mtn Home residents look bad.

    -- Posted by ID=Home on Mon, Jun 13, 2011, at 4:36 PM

  • Notice that there's been a whole lot of nothing on the publicity side of this since the announcement last December. I think a couple different delegations of Saudis have been through the base, but it's all been very low key. How come there haven't been any scoping meetings with the public? The article in the base paper said that if they do decide on Mt Home there would be an EIS, along with a comment period, but possibly no public meetings. Anyone else feeling railroaded? I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I know some of the Saudis that are going to show up here, I trained them for a year while on active duty. For the most part they are not to be trusted. I certainly hope that we get a public forum on this, you can count on me being there to discuss why this is a bad idea.

    -- Posted by Northside on Mon, Jun 13, 2011, at 6:11 PM

  • Money, money and more money. Let's make more money. Who gets the money? Will it serve the Mtn Home Community? Arabs are generally good people individually, but when there are more than one they have a tendancy for sticking to each other like any other people. But when the group becomes more crowded they start crying. There will be polical pressure (on the local communities) for bowing down to the demands of the money producing Saudis. Threats to take their business elsewhere when the locals start seeing the other side of having this venture. The Saudi airmen will be like any other young men, they will look at the locals daughters as much a shop and dine in the Boise City center. If they come, best to greet them openly and maintain a public open dialogue before the Wahington types bend to pressures and force issues.

    -- Posted by loslaynes on Thu, Jun 16, 2011, at 1:55 PM
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