7 thoughts on “The Pensacola Terror Attack”

  2. We need the BS detector here. The NCIS investigates crimes after they happen, not before. They are not issued a crystal ball with their sidearm. Our entire military is more of a reactionary, rather than an anticipatory force. If we could see these things coming, we would stop them. On 9-11-2001 the 20th hijacker was in jail in Minnesota. They were close, but didn’t have it all put together yet. When a lone nut does something like this, there is very little chance of preventing it. We just have to make it obvious further attacks will be very painful to all the rest involved. Otherwise they will keep occuring.

    1. If the personnel on base were carrying, the odds of his doing anything at all would have been reduced. And the number of casualties would have been fewer if just one seaman had been able to draw down on the malefactor.

      I love the punchline: “For if the Navy can’t protect a Navy base, how can it protect America?”

  3. If he’d continued training, he’d of had something a lot better than a gun. A plane that could fly faster than most bullets and maybe live weapons as well.

    I doubt they’ll ever tell, but my bet is that he was on the verge of washing out.

    Thirty years ago, Saudi trainee pilots were known for lots of attitude and bad landings.

    The real bonus is finding out SECNAV is an idiot that thinks being able to buy a gun is the problem.

    1. Should have read the article first, he wasn’t there long enough to wash out. Still, I have to believe that he would have had a better opportunity later.

      1. he wasn’t there long enough to wash out.

        He was there since at least April (where an alleged incident with an instructor happened). That’s more than enough time, particularly, if he had mental/behavioral problems (and maybe a track record) going in.

        1. I thought that this was the link Rand gave.
          https://dbdailyupdate.com/index.php/2019/12/09/what-really-happened-at-nas-pensacola-and-why/

          It’s a little ambiguous, I read it to say that he checked in at the station on Monday. But now I’m not clear if he meant for the first time or just after the weekend. There are comments on the way we are “training” these future “allies” that mesh with what I’ve been told from 35 years ago. If you have a more definitive source for a timeline, I’d be interested.

          We need to get over the idea that the Saudis are allies. At best we share an enemy in Iran. Unlike the Brits or even the Euros (for now), we don’t have any commonality of values. We can’t allow the Iranians to get control of the money and power of the Arabian Peninsula and, so far, the status quo has been marginally acceptable but I wouldn’t shed a tear to wake up one morning and find that the heads of the House of Saud were adorning some stakes.

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