Whiskey Pete Backtracks After Qatari Air Base Confusion

[MineralMan]

4. So Hegseth Was Talking out of His Ass Again?

Typical. Now he has to withdraw the nonsense he said and try to fix his blunder.

We have been training foreign fighter pilots at various Air Force bases for a very long time. If we sell them fighter jets, we help them learn how to fly them. They come here for training and then they return to their country to fly those fighters and train other pilots. It's a program that has been running for a few decades.

Hegseth did not understand that program, in the same way he does not understand much of anything about the military. He's commanding from a position of ignorance and stupidity. So he makes stupid mistakes constantly, and then blusters his way through them, or tries to.