Posted on 09/08/2006 3:07:09 PM PDT by show me state
Edited on 09/08/2006 3:58:09 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2006 — Air Force Maj. Jill Metzger, who vanished Monday in Kyrgyzstan, has been found and now is back in Air Force control, ABC News has learned.
"We are elated to have Jill back with us," said Air Force spokesman Col. Scott Reese. Local police notified U.S. officials that she had been found at 1:15 a.m. local time in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Air Force officials say she was found alone and appears to have been beaten. Officials say she is "coherent," in "relatively good condition" and is talking to investigators. She is also undergoing medical evaluation.
Officials would not comment on the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and said the investigation is ongoing
The news brought elation to Metzger's family.
"It's a dream come true. The most significant event of our lives," said Kelly Mayo, Metzger's father-in-law. Mayo said he has not spoken to Metzger yet, but believes she had been kidnapped and "whoever had her dropped her off on the side of the road."
Metzger vanished on Monday afternoon in Kyrgyzstan — a poor, predominantly Muslim country in Central Asia. Since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, Kyrgyzstan has been home to a strategically important U.S. military base that supports operations in Afghanistan. The government is generally pro-American, and in recent years has experienced sporadic clashes with Islamic fundamentalists.
Just 10 days before deploying to Kyrgyzstan in April, Metzger married Air Force Capt. Josh Mayo. They had already bought tickets for a honeymoon in Jamaica later this month, he said.
"We were going to take Jet Skis out, have a couple of romantic dinners. It is very disappointing," said Mayo
Before her disappearance, Metzger was last seen out shopping with five others from the base. The group briefly separated inside a department store in the center of Bishkek, several miles from the base. They had agreed to meet a short time later, but Metzger never showed up.
"Son made Captain at 25. He was commissioned at 21 when he graduated college and was commissioned 2LT."
Great! As the system now is...with people hitting the majors board at the 8 year point...he could quite possibly make Major and pin on before the age of 30. Of course, it depends on his line number.
Thankfully, we have been blessed with my husband's recovery.
The thing that is really sad, is DU in fact did not treat her this badly. I went to DU yesterday just to read threads about this incident. Most posters on DU ignored the story; most of those who chose to post expressed joy that she was found alive. There were some deleted posts, so I am sure some had clever remarks. The point is, DU did treat this Major better than FR did. I am amazed, and not in a good way.
I didn't realize the mutawa operated in Kyrgyzstan.
Dh watched that show; I never really liked it. But glad to be of help.
100% AGREED, sir.
"Something doesn't make sense, does it? A trained military officer is shopping in public. Somebody sticks a bomb in her pocket with directions to a house someplace, and she, a trained military officer, just goes along? "
Exactly...there's something missing.
Tell that to the revisionist history books! The women in my family were tough as nails. I could tell you tales that would curl your hair.
My dad's mother was out in the cotton fields while he was still a baby on a blanket under a tree. A story in my family told of the day someone saw my dad with my grandmother's 32 pistol drawing a bead on another worker at the other end of the field.
My maternal Grandmother was over sixty years old when she caught her hand in an old-fashioned table-saw attached to the power takeoff of a tractor. It cut into her palm, she lost two fingers and left the others as useless claws. She had been building a garage by herself for my Grand-pap. She could hang Sheetrock on the ceiling by herself through her seventies with a deadman brace. She was as good a carpenter as any I've seen. In her eighties she tied my grandfather to the chimney so he wouldn't fall or wander off while she repaired damaged roofing shingles.
Mother is also pretty strong willed and got her Masters degree the year my brother graduated from college. My wife has no stories of daring-do but her inner strength continues to impress me. My daughter is already on her way to making a big dent in the business world.
Jill's comment: Send me back, I'm not finished shopping!!
That is one viewpoint.
Very wierd. When I saw her pic, I was sure I had seen her somewhere. Later found out she lives in my town....Hmmm.
BTW, she was advised not to discuss her injuries publicly, and she hasn't. I have a feeling it's a lot worse than we know.
Send out the Base Defense force team, and with a cab rank of A-10s to be called in when they find the ones who snatched and beat her (and probably worse)
Yeh, she went AWOL while shopping with her friends, and then beat herself up.
Get a grip.
Probably more than one. Between the ages of 17 and 40, unless there was an older "ringleader", AKA as a Mullah.
Sounds like the ROP, and not just some rowdy individual.
One story clip said "in good condition" the story at the link says "in relatively good condition". And probably should have added, "considering" Whole lot of pain between "good condition" and "relatively good condition".
Or suffer from imagination deficit disorder. "Not being held against her will *when she was found*. IOW, someone beat her up, and then dumped her. Check the local mosque for suspects in the abduction and beating.
Now if we could just get enough "He Men" to volunteer to take those the positions of the those female mechanics, truck drivers, etc. IIRC, she is a personnel officer, which was one of the first career fields open to women officers other than nursing/medical, well that and intelligence officer.
I used to hang out with a bunch of intell types, (meaning I was attached to their unit), and the story one told of a women targeteer (a subset of intell field) whose husband was killed in the SE Asian War Games of the '60s and early '70s, would curl your hair. "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord", but I think He worked through that "lady".
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