The U.S. Senate has passed legislation intended to improve vetting and monitoring of foreign military personnel training on U.S. soil. Florida U.S. Senator Rick Scott’s Secure U.S. Bases Act was included in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Senator Scott proposed the act after the December 6th shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola when a Saudi aviation student fatally shot three people and wounded eight others before he was killed in a shoot-out with Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies. A federal investigation later revealed that he had posted anti-American rhetoric on his social media accounts and had been communicating with al-Qaeda operatives.