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We're not succeeding there, either. We'd be doing much better if we could communicate more effectively.



Ken, these meetings with village elders aren't necessarily taking place at the company...

For he today who fought the FSB for supplies with me
Shall be my brother;

I have walked in your shoes, dude. My first platoon had to steal water from the Air Force in Jacobabad, Pakistan. When...

Ken, I'm not trying to smartass you, but what you're describing isn't realistic at all in Afghanistan. Getting "rudimentary military points across" is not enough. This isn't about being able to say...

Here's a horror story, Schmedlap: As contractors were ferrying in Burger King, etc. to the Green Zone in late summer 2003, my guys were wearing out their boots in northwest Iraq. As XO, I was...

Ken, how exactly would soldiers and marines conduct COIN without competent interpreters?



Do we know each other? We started hiring guys off the street that April for $5 a day with cash out of...

You guys are saying that we can't adequately hire, train, and retain our own translators. At the same time, the AP is reporting--as is IntelTrooper--that troops in the field say the contractors...

The supply isn't there because we haven't spent the last eight years training soldiers in critical language skills. Hindsight is 20/20, but in 2001, we could've started offering $60,000/six-year...

Writing for the AP, Jason Straziuso published a troubling piece Thursday morning called, "Many translators unfit in any language." Here's an excerpt:



What I still don't understand is why a...