(Sept. 9) -- A whistle-blower has stepped forward claiming that more than a quarter of translators working alongside troops in Afghanistan are unqualified, having failed language exams but nonetheless been sent to the battlefield.
"I determined that someone -- and I didn't know [who] at that time -- was changing the grades from blanks or zeros to passing grades," Paul Funk told ABC News. Funk used to be in charge of screening Afghan linguists for Mission Essential Personnel, a Ohio contractor. "Many who failed were marked as being passed," he said.
Funk filed a whistle-blower lawsuit that was unsealed earlier this year. Mission Essential Personnel, which holds about $1.4 billion in contracts with the Defense Department, disputes the claims, while Army officials say they are investigating the matter.
Read more at ABC News.
A Quarter of Interpreters in Afghanistan Are Unqualified?
Sep 9, 2010 – 8:30 AM
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