In this 2016 photo, two Afghan pilots walk past a C-208 plane at the Afghan military airbase in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Task & Purpose: The Pentagon is ending a training program for Afghan pilots after nearly half go AWOL in the US
The U.S. military may no longer track how much territory the Afghan government controls, but here's at least one definite metric of success: Afghan AC-208 pilots are no longer trained in the United States because more than 40 percent of the students training to fly the aircraft end up deserting within U.S. borders.
This latest nugget is tucked within the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction's recent report about the (lack of) progress in Afghanistan.
"Those students that did not go AWOL were pulled back to Afghanistan to complete their training: as a result, only one class graduated from the U.S.-based program," the report says. "The second and third classes will continue and finish their training in Afghanistan."
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