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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1980
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Iranian military trainees at U.S.
bases have lived in the shadows the
past few weeks, due to their orders
and to the more practical demands of
reality.
Since Nov. 7 they have been told
by Lt. Col. Alijan Sargazi, the senior
Iranian officer at Lackland Air Force
Base in San Antonio, to avoid repor
ters and photographers.
An Air Force official said he
understands Sargazi’s motives:
“His people are in a no-win situa
tion. If they are interviewed and
they say, ‘We condemn what’s going
on back home,’ then they can’t go
back home. If they say ‘Khomeini is
right in what he has been doing,’
they’d be in trouble with this
country.’’
Currently, 201 Iranians are under
going training at seven U.S. Air
Force bases in Texas, Mississippi,
California and Colorado.
Some study navigation or learn
other technical military skills, but
most are jet pilot trainees stationed
at Air Training Command bases. The
pilot trainees have had one thing in
common since Nov. 23: they’ve been
grounded.
Defense Secretary Harold Brown
issued an edict restricting training to
the classroom and the simulator, and
since then the Iranians have been
barred from the supersonic T-38s in
which they had hoped to gather the
120 hours of required flight time.
The grounding order was given af
ter the administration received cri
ticism from several quarters, includ
ing the offices of Texas’ senators,
Lloyd Bentsen and John Tower, in
whose home state most of the Ira
nians were trained in the past.
“There is absolutely no reason for
the United States to continue to train
fighter pilots for a renegade govern
ment that is holding American diplo
mats hostage in Tehran,’’ Bentsen
declared 10 days before Brown
issued his grounding order.
Since that time, trainees who en
tered the program under the aegis of
the shah’s regime have found them
selves in the position of seeking
pilots wings with no real chance of
gaining requisite flight time. Uncer
tainty about the future has gnawed
on them, base officials say privately.
“They are,” said one Air Training
Command official last week, "in a
state of limbo.”
The last Iranian trainee is sche
duled to graduate in October, but
without the chance to log required
flying time, it’s difficult to imagine
how he will earn his silver pilot’s
wings.
“If and when the decision is made
to resume flying, there would prob
ably be some adjustments in their
graduation dates,” an ATC official
concluded.
But Gen. Bennie L. Davis, com
mander of the Air Training Com
mand, does not favor a resumption of
the Iranian flying program.
“My recommendation would be to
terminate all of the program and
send them back,” he said.
That decision has not been made,
however, and Davis said recently it
will be decided only in the context of
the nation s total Iranian policy.
Since 1950, some 9,400 Iranians
have gone through the program, in
cluding 2,300 pilot trainees.
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my mother that.”
Since Americans were taken hos
tage in Iran last November, the
situation has been a big topic of dis
cussion among military personnel
and their families.
The Soviet Union’s invasion of
Afghanistan heightened the tension
— and increased talk within the
armed services about U.S. military
action.
“I just hope the problems can be
resolved through negotiations, not
war,” said a 20-year-old sailor as he
knocked off foes at a Lancer Inn pool
table.
“There are some guys saying we
should go into Iran, and there are
guys saying if we go in, they’re going
to Canada,” he said. “Me, I’d rather
not get involved. But if I have to eo,
ni go.”
As ot last week, there were 25
Navy ships in the Indian Ocean off
Iran, including at least six based in
Norfolk — the carrier Nimitz, the
guided missile cruisers California
and Texas, the guided missiledes-
troyer Claude V. Rickets and two fri
gates, the Glover and Ainsworth.
Their crews total 16,000 men.
Several young servicemen at the
Lancer Inn, a favorite off-hours spot
for sailors and Marines — many away
from home for the first time — talked
tough and advocated prompt milit
ary action against Iran.
Others, more cautious, expressed
hope that the crisis would be re
solved through talks, not muscle, but
said they were ready to serve.
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