[Kalich]

" I need a little clarification. Did you mean the soldiers never said anything to their superiors about their suspicions, or do you mean the brass would never say anything to the Afghan because they didn't want to offend him?"

they (brass) didn't want to offend him , because they saw him as a great asset , which he was cause it seemed he could smell who was Taliban and who wasn't , but at the same time I sure as hell know we were just a paycheck to him and since he wasn't an official Terp(je carried his own RPK) it was always in the end of orders that He was tagging along with us for the OP ( so yes he picked and choose d his go's with us )

OPSEC was good within the Unit but somehow it seemed our unnoficial terp always avoided the worst confrontations that happened or sat in the back of the carrier while firefights went down . The good thing about this guy was he conducted his own TQ right on the spot with the guys who tested positive with the gun residue kits , his methods were unorthodox but he got them singing like caneries for information . Seeing how well his methods worked the brass took a liking to him and took the information that he got from the handjis .