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| Title | U.S. Army Hopes to Keep Native Arabic Speakers |
| Body | From http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0805/p01s01-usmi.html U.S. Army hopes to keep native Arabic speakers: Incentives likely to include large payments to soldiers now working as translators. By Gordon Lubold August 5, 2008 The Army may begin paying a retention bonus of as much as $150,000 to Arabic speaking soldiers in reflection of how critical it has become for the US military to retain native language and cultural know-how in its ranks. Only one other job in the Army, Special Forces, rates such a super-sized retention bonus. Now, as the military makes a fundamental shift toward rewarding the linguistic expertise it needs the most, it is expanding a program to train and retain native Arabic and other speakers from the same regions in which it is fighting. Read the entire article at http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0805/p01s01-usmi.html . |
| Source | Christian Science Monitor |
| Inputdate | 2008-08-24 08:08:55 |
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