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Originally Posted by MtnGoat
I say other nightmare in Afghanistan is the mangagement of Linguist. Local Terp (LNL) and U.S. hire Linguist. The bases for companies taking over the mangagement of Terps was due, from what I was told, to Embezzlement of funds from or of U.S Military Terp mangagers.
So if a Terp at a local U.S. Firebase. SOF or Conventional was making $800.00 to $1500.00 a month and then had a U.S. military mangager take his and every other terps pay. Say 8 terps.. if one terp made $1500.00.. Well now the U.S. Companies that manage terps now make $3000 to $5000 per Terp, but only pay a terp $650 to $940 a month. While the U.S. military Point Of Contact (POC) acts as a manager for the company fill out time sheet and pay invoices for the company to then charge the US GOVT for there management fees.
I could go on.. But I think you see the ONE MORE nightmare here.
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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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