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Monday, September 5, 2011

The Army is Now Paying For Multi Dialect Linguists

Good news if you are an Arabic/Farsi linguist.  You can now get paid for dialects.  For example, a Persian-Farsi linguist can now be paid for testing in Persian-Afghan (Dari).  Previously, Dari was considered a dialect and was not payable.  Consequently, an Arabic linguist could test in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Iraqi Dialect.  The relevant ALARACT message is ALARACT 207/2011.  It can be found here.

Here are some of the relevant portions of the ALARACT as well as AR 11-6 (The Army Foreign Language Program) so that you can show your finance:

ALARACT:

(B) THE ARMY CONSIDERS THE FOLLOWING IMMEDIATE INVESTMENT
LANGUAGES TO BE SEPARATE LANGUAGES (NOT DIALECTS) FOR FLPB
PURPOSES: IRAQI ARABIC (DG); YEMENI ARABIC (AU); PERSIAN-AFGHAN
(DARI) (PG); AND PERSIAN-IRANIAN (FARSI).

AR 11-6:

f. Soldiers with Arabic designated as their CLANG/primary language or assigned to an Arabic coded billet are authorized to test Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) (AD), Algerian (DH), Egyptian (AE), Gulf Dialect (DG), and/or Levantine (AP). All Soldiers must take the MSA (AD) reading test and then may choose to take one or more of the listening dialect tests. The reading and listening test must be taken within 30 days of each other to be counted as a valid test.

c. The effective date of FLPB payments will be the date of the DLPT, DLRPT, or OPI. If the DLPT is administered on two separate days, then the effective date of FLPB will begin on the later of the two dates. Soldiers must complete all testing within 30 days for the test to be valid.

If you have questions, please feel free to visit the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
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  1. Khaleejii AmriikiiJune 9, 2019 at 10:07 PM

    Greetings and many thanks to this blogger, who I surmise is assigned to an INSCOM MI (HUMINT) unit.

    Just came across this good, relevant and beneficial blog, and plan to publicize its existence and utility to some USAR soldier-linguists (35P, HUMINTers, SOF operators and FAOs) in various USAR units.

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    ** Ref testing, rating, reporting (via completion and submission of DA Form 330) and determining the correct amount for payment of FLPB: for those trained, capable and experienced in an eligible Local Dialect Arabic (LDA), the proper, valid, accurate and properly-legal method for assessment of such a linguist is an OPI (typically an OTP testing event) administered by testers at DLIFLC or FSI (as arranged through DLIFLC's Washington Office), NOT a DLPT.

    ** Without going into the gory details of an incident which involved a USAR heritage speaker of Arabic and Armenian, over-reliance on a DLPT (just because "it's there on the shelf" at the Testing Center) can lead to a strong IG complaint. AR 611-6 has strong guidance well worth contemplating.

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    ** Any Arabic linguist who could use some open-source/unclassified reference materials on features of the major LDAs in the CENTCOM AOR and on (ahem) "military Arabic" is welcome to contact me at < shfranke@hotmail.com > and also provide an email address which will accept and convey attached files (i.e. PDF or MS Word).

    ** Ditto offer stands about (fewer) items about dialects of the Persian language, social behavior, Iranian communicative styles (lots about "taarof"), and "operational cultures" (here borrowing an apt term from a USMC organization I occasionally advise and assist as on-call LREC SME) during country-specific pre-deployment training programs to prepare USMC-resourced Security Assistance Teams for duty as advisors, trainers and "force developers" of their Arabic-prevalent foreign military counterparts.

    ** These references might be especially useful to language-enabled HUMINTers, Strategic Debriefers (I am one), Intel Interviewers / Elicitors, SOF guys, and FAOs. With my compliments our Army's linguists and also their attentive, hard-working and diligent CLPMs, having been one and also Service Program Manager (SPM) for The Army Language Programs at HQDA DAMI G2 in earlier times.

    ** Today is Sunday, 9 June 2019.

    Regards,

    Stephen H. Franke
    LTC, FAO/MI/SOF/HUMINT/
    Attache/Security Cooperation,
    U.S. Army Retired
    San Pedro, California

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  2. Khaleejii AmriikiiJune 9, 2019 at 10:10 PM

    CORRECON OF MISTYPING:

    SHOULDD BE: With my compliments to all of our Army's linguists and also their attentive, hard-working and diligent CLPMs, having been one and also Service Program Manager (SPM) for The Army Language Programs at HQDA DAMI G2 in earlier times.

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