[quote=“Fox”]
BF, don’t you think it is a little starnge that private contractors should be conducting military interrorgations?[/quote]
Not at all. To be an interrogator one would have to go to the Defense Language Institute (Monterrey, California) for several years, be an intelligence specialist (FT Huachuca, AZ) and have years of experience in that AO. Under Clinton, military retention rates were abysmal. There was more money for anyone to be made [i]outside[/i] the military. Now we are paying for it.
hn.afnews.af.mil/webpages/transcripts/DLI03.htm
“The Defense Language Institute reports that it takes 63 weeks to get a basic working knowledge of Arabic, compared to 25 weeks to learn simpler languages like Spanish, French and Italian. During the class period, students take six-to-seven hours of class with two-to-three hours of homework five days a week.”
acfnewsource.org/general/lan … itute.html
"Since the 1992 presidential election, the number of people serving in the U.S. military has been cut by over 700,000. The brunt of this cutback has fallen on the Army and Air Force, both of which have experienced personnel cuts of 45% since 1989. The Navy, through the elimination of vessels and undermanned ships, has been reduced by 36%. Over the same period, however, operational commitments (such as deployments to Kosovo, Bosnia and Iraq) have increased by 300%.
What’s wrong with this equation? We now expect our servicemen to do more with less, deploying tanks designed for a crew of four with only three men and guided-missile cruisers with only 86% of their assigned crew.
The net result is devastating to the morale of our country’s men and women in uniform. For example, sailors such as those on the U.S.S. Anzio spend 77% of their nights away from their families.4 While it is not a soldier’s place to complain, many of them choose to vote with their feet when it becomes time to reenlist.
General Richard Hawley, the commander of Air Combat Command, recently noted that pilots cite the increased rate of operations as “their top reason for leaving the Air Force.” General Thomas Schwartz, commander of U.S. Army Forces Command, has voiced similar sentiments. “Our soldiers… repeatedly tell us that they choose to leave the Army because they cannot raise their family and be constantly deployed,” reported Schwartz.
Retention rates in all service branches are well below their target projections. The obvious solution - replacing these seasoned troops with new recruits - is unacceptable. This would diminish the quality and experience of our fighting forces. Shortfalls in recruiting have already prompted the Army and Navy to consider allowing more high school dropouts to enlist. Despite recent media blitzes, the Army still could fall short of its recruitment goal this year by 10,000."
nationalcenter.org/NPA249.html
"A military man who has to tell his wife and family that he has been fired from the service is not likely to forget the experience. But having to tell them that he has been selected out by a review board because his unit had too many white males to suit the Pentagon’s affirmative-action program made Frank Christian furious after a Selective Early Retirement Board (SERB) decided in July 1992 that his services – and those of 1,031 other lieutenant colonels who are white males – no longer were required by the U.S. Army. “All of us were hurt and felt something was wrong, either with us or the way this was done” Christian tells Insight. Now the U.S. Claims Court has agreed.
Also in 1992, a board at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, selected 610 male colonels for early retirement. No female colonels were selected out. A class-action lawsuit followed, with 83 of the colonels contending that the use of affirmative-action policies in their dismissals violated their right to equal protection. Their case was settled by the government out of court for $10 million."
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