Two Afghan nationals being trained at an Air Force base in Georgia have been reported missing.
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There is a coordinated effort among federal agencies to locate these men as quickly as possible and return them to the proper authorities, a statement from the base said.
Two Afghans being trained by the USA military have disappeared from an Air Force base in Georgia and are being sought by federal authorities.
Two Afghan Air Force trainees have vanished from an Air Force Base in United States where they were undergoing training and shortly before their graduation, it has been reported.
The two had been at Moody since February 2015 as part of a training program aimed at improving the Afghanistan air force, according to the base’s statement.
They are among nine pilots and 14 maintenance crew who have been at Moody Air Force Base for much of the year.
This is not the first time Afghan military personnel have gone missing in the United States, notes AL.com.
The last contact with the missing trainees was on Friday, December 4, when the two men went off-base over the weekend. “Multiple law enforcement agencies received an alert from Moody officials”, adds local news outlet WLAB.
The soldier was one of three Afghan nationals who turned themselves in at a Canadian border crossing in NY state in 2014 after disappearing from an exercise, provoking a search by military officials and state police.
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The A-29 Super Tucano Aircraft that the Afghan airmen have been working and training on are scheduled to be taken to Afghanistan with them at the end of their mission in 2018.
