The DoD wide initiative to build a corps of officers and senior NCOs with grounded, long-term expertise in AFPAK is off to a slow start. Only about 162 of over 900 slots have been filled and progress towards such is so slow that Mullen has had to fire a memorandum to his service chiefs to get off the stick.
Not only are numbers down, but Mullen is not entirely satisfied with the quality of those offered forth. There are career implications here about this unusual career track and it'll be interesting to see how DoD handles this over the long term. Contributions to this corps of experts are also expected from numerous civilian agencies who, to date, have also failed to meet their quotas.
The work is preceded by a fairly extensive training period that includes about four months of language training in Dari or pashtu-
Slow Start for Military Corps in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
Not only are numbers down, but Mullen is not entirely satisfied with the quality of those offered forth. There are career implications here about this unusual career track and it'll be interesting to see how DoD handles this over the long term. Contributions to this corps of experts are also expected from numerous civilian agencies who, to date, have also failed to meet their quotas.
The work is preceded by a fairly extensive training period that includes about four months of language training in Dari or pashtu-
Slow Start for Military Corps in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
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