Afghan Oficer School Making 'progress', According To The Army Times

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unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (Righthaven LLC?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: We're spending billions on training Afghanis, so we need a story to tell us how well things are going. I guess this is 'progress'.

Did I mention that I'm not a fan of the word 'progress'?





Students at the officers academy in Afghanistan gather for a classroom lesson.


Largest class enters Afghan military academy
By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Oct 17, 2010 16:50:20 EDT

Inside a Soviet-era air academy near the Kabul Airport where unexploded ordnance and rusting Soviet aircraft parts sat in bombed out buildings, the Afghan National Army has built its own version of West Point.