I was the detachment safety officer so I got to teach the local conditions course, I really didn't think it was that hard of a test and don't ever remembering anyone failing it. I taught about the different signs, the priority road designations how to convert KMH to MPH and since it was Greece reminded everyone how slick roads made from marble chips were when wet and that for the most part they were second generation drivers and traffic was a lot different in that mule carts were allowed on the national highways. It's coming back yes you had to have a stateside license to get a permit through the military, it was never an issue because they required you to get a US driver's license before you were shipped overseas. This caused some problems when some of our Airmen that didn't ship cars over decided to buy motor bikes on the economy, we had to inform them that they had to complete the Air Force motorcycle safety course at our support base to ride them and the support base couldn't schedule the class until they provided a copy of their stateside license with the appropriate cycle endorsement. They did find a loophole in that most states will allow you to operate a Mo-ped on a regular driver's license, then we were over run with mo-peds on det until one of our SPs tangled with a Greek dump truck and got messed up pretty bad. He was initially treated in a Greek hospital, he wasn't thrilled about the quality of care. Of course he was transported down to the USAF hospital at Athens as soon as he was stable. IIRC he was eventually air-vac'd to Landsthul RAMF in Germany. A lot of our people sold their mo-peds shortly after that. I don't remember us doing any training, testing or issuing driving permits when I was in Saudi Arabia but I don't think we had much of a SOFA their. On the exchange students the program we participated in (open door) at home in Michigan pretty much prohibited them from driving or learning to drive but I did hear of some exchange programs that would allow it if the driver's ed was class/program at the school were they were enrolled. We sponsored students from Israel and Sweden and what they were allowed and not allowed to do varied by the home country they came from.
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