HEADS UP: Foreign military soldiers in training at Ft Benning, GA

My wife’s sister is a Clinical Social Worker for the military and has worked at several different bases over a 10 year span. Her latest position required her to receive additional training at Fort Benning, Georgia for the last week or so.

Last night my wife was talking to her and she said she felt very uncomfortable around the soldiers there.  My wife asked why and she replied that there were a whole lot of middle eastern looking men, in uniforms, speaking a language she did not understand and could not tell if they were talking about her or not. She told her it reminded her of the movie “Taken.”

She felt so uncomfortable she declined the only food on base available to her, the on base hotel that served breakfast. Instead, she would get food from a little grocer and eat in her room. In the mornings and evenings in the lobby and even in the hallway, she said these men were gathered everywhere.

My wife’s sister has always been the “oblivious” type when it comes to personal safety or situational awareness, like living in questionable neighborhoods and never locking her doors, jogging alone in said neighborhoods, driving across country with a vehicle I would not feel reliable enough to go across town.

So for her to notice this, feel very unsafe, and tell my wife about it – it must have been a pretty ominous environment.