The main gate at Naval Air Station Pensacola is seen in Pensacola, Fla., March 16, 2016. (U.S. Navy photo by Patrick Nichols)But Friday’s events caused many officials and lawmakers to call for deeper scrutiny of the security measures and vetting that goes into selecting trainees.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wrote on Twitter that he is calling for a “full review” of the Navy training programs after investigators said they were exploring the possibility that the attack is related to terrorism.
“I’m very concerned that the shooter in Pensacola was a foreign national training on a U.S. base. Today, I’m calling for a full review of the U.S. military programs to train foreign nationals on American soil. We shouldn’t be providing military training to people who wish us harm,” Scott wrote.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., wrote on Twitter that Friday’s events “exposed some serious flaw” in the vetting process that trainees undergo before entering the program.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Friday that his first priority is supporting the ongoing investigation and determining the shooter’s motives.
“I want to make sure we’re doing our due diligence to understand what are our procedures” concerning the training programs, he added.
Esper referred to the shooter as a Saudi national who was a second lieutenant in flight training.
Sources told Fox News that the scene of the shooting — a classroom, where students usually spend three months at the beginning of the program — indicated that the shooter was a student who was “early” in his training.
The majority of the hundreds of foreign aviation students who have participated in the program are from Saudi Arabia, the Navy said. The Naval training program has about 1,500 pilots in total.
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