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Pilot Zone / Re: New Pilot Forum
« on: December 07, 2019, 01:31:50 PM »
In the 70's I was teaching ATC in the Air Force at Biloxi, MS (Keesler AFB). We would have 2-4 Iranian air force students in each class starting every week. These guys were driving Mercedes or other high end cars and partying it up big time while they were in school. Most of them didn't have anything good to say about the USA and enjoyed complaining about this country. 6 months before the revolution in Iran the pipeline of Iranian students suddenly stopped. We were wondering what was going on. The students that were already here disappeared over the next month or so. At that time I had 4 Iranian women in my class (the only Iranian women I know of that came through our school). One of them asked who she should see about staying in the States as a political refugee. At the time I was flight instructing part time and had a student who worked in the department of state and got them together. I asked her why and she said "I know what is going to happen in Iran". Found out a year or so later all 4 women stayed here in the USA.