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Originally Posted by Jgood
Well that will be amazing considering I am owed a years worth of back language pay. Sad to say this is the Norm for most of my BN at least. Better get that 1/1 or no schools for you, get that 1+/1+ or no excellence on your NCOER, but don't worry we will pay you sometime 
Sorry for venting but I feel language is a huge portion of our job and would love to see more put into a program that truly could make you fluent and not just study for a test. |
No - You are well within your rights to vent. I'm amazed at the amount of patience exhibited across the Regiment when it comes to language pay. The system is set up for intel weenies; everything we do in SF is an exception to policy/regulation and our growth w/increased emphasis on language is happening years faster than the Army/DoD can change to keep up. The leadership is aware of the problem - especially the ones who've led from the front and gotten their own test scores current - they're owed back pay too. Hopefully we've addressed the pay issue so that most of the backlog has been resolved. To do it we had to send a team of contractors to DFAS to sit next to the one LOLITS who handles our language pay and hand jam thousands of records. We're praying this won't be a quarterly bandaid but nobody familiar with the problem is holding their breath. What we are hoping is that most of you owed back pay will see it about the same time the CC bills for Christmas show up. (You won't get to touch it but the wives will be happier!)
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