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Originally Posted by lindy
The TS//SI cleared terps that we use are actually paid alot more than that (to the tune of $250K with bonuses, haz duty pay, etc.). I still don't understand why the USG hasn't been pumping out Pashto, Farsi, Dari linguists from DLI like we did in the days of the "Turbo Serbo" classes (I'm a product of that myself).
I strongly suspect that 12 weeks of Pashto training will not have the same effect as 12 weeks of Serb!
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Yeah right.. Groups are teaching it but with Ranges, BS reasons from soldiers and no Command influence or BIG PUSH SF guy really don't care about langauge training due to us having so many LNL terps.
If Group Commander would tell every SF Tab that you will take a DLPT or OPI once you come back from OEF or "Back in the Day" OIF. Things would be different IMHO. When a Group Command (Grp CDR or CSM) does come down to "check on training" at the langauge school. When Tm SGT send a guy to the CLP training just to get rid of them or for their personal time; to fix themseleves or family life. All great, but if that the reason for it??
Yes terps get paid a ton for what they do. Locals don't and just like those Cat 1,2,3s they may know the language or the may not know it. The ones that just came to the U.S.A and then come back as a Cat 1 and do it for 3 to 5 years and than come back as Cat2 are tens better than the Linguist that grow up in the US and been gone for 10 plus years. We have some that IMHO don;t really know their mother langauge. I have one that for the longest time kept writting North and South wrong.
Some are great and some should never have been terps..
bit off topic tho