SON OF A B***H!!!!!!!!!!!
And all they paid me was a LOUSY $100/month, even when I was deployed overseas using my "#1 in DoD" linguistic talent........
Posted on 05/11/2006 1:06:39 PM PDT by RDTF
Edited on 05/12/2006 3:34:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Pentagon, faced with a critical shortage of foreign language expertise, said it would increase the money it pays troops who know a language other than English.
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No need to click on the link - that is the extent of the article.
Do they have to know English also?
I can speak jive! But that only comes in handy around Detroit.
Oooops, someone's gonna be in trouble! Can't have profiling, ya know.
I'm told I speak flawless Canadian, eh?
Do ebonics count?
I'm a bit fluent too, you hoser! Take off, eh?
Well, a seasoned serviceman ought to be able to curse and swear in at least ten languages.
Ring a ling, Pentagon calling.
Well you can have native fluency and max all aspects of testing, but just don't be a homo.
People should be rewarded for their skills.
Cool. My niece is an Arabic linguist in the USAF.
Applicant: "Cobol, PL1, C++, and RPG400."
SON OF A B***H!!!!!!!!!!!
And all they paid me was a LOUSY $100/month, even when I was deployed overseas using my "#1 in DoD" linguistic talent........
It doesn't matter. You can be a native speaker the Army will still send you to learn a different language. They never do things the easy way.
Hmmmmm....I am COMPLETELY CERTAIN they're not going to use this to enrich hispanic recruits....RIGHT...?!
That actually was a problem, at least for the USAF, in the 90s when we opened up language pay to everyone. Native Spanish and Tagalog speakers were bankrupting us. Luckily we had some sane minds at work and the program was amended to specify that you had to be in linguist billet to receive the pay.
BTW, native speakers don't necessarily make the best linguists depending on the job.....
"Well you can have native fluency and max all aspects of testing, but just don't be a homo."
Funny you should say that - back in 1986 when I decided to leave the Army and join the AF as a Russian linguist my CWO said to me, "Why the hell do you want to go out to DLI (the Defense Language Institute)? That place is filled with freaks and fa**!" And frankly, there were quite a bit of, hmm, how to put it, "artistic" types out there...
Monteray Mary Ping
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