<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="" itemprop="headline">Army foreign language reg update emphasizes proficiency</h1><div class=""><span class=""><a rel="author" href="http://www.armytimes.com/staff/27679/jim-tice/"> Jim Tice</a>, Army Times </span><span class="">4:45 p.m. EST March 3, 2016</span></div><div id="module-position-O2tAZVBqEoM" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><img class="" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/f5165edfa19bcf273643df7b3770f5690bca06dd/r=x404&c=534x401/http/cdn.tegna-tv.com/-mm-/f4c5703e29fb232627b1326b73a798bd65219bf4/c=37-0-604-426/local/-/media/2016/03/03/GGM/MarineCorpsTimes/635926199094817514-dli.jpg" alt="Foreign language proficiency pay"><span class=""></span></div><p class=""><span class=""><span class="">(Photo: Brian Lamar/Army)</span></span></p></div></div><div id="module-position-O2tAZVDg1K0" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><span class="">
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Army’s principal regulation for the management of military and civilian
linguists has been updated, to include several policy changes affecting
foreign language proficiency pay.</p><p>The change to the rule, <a href="http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r11_6.pdf">AR 11-6</a>
(Army Foreign Language Program), was published Feb. 18, and will take
effect March 18. It incorporates the major policy changes included in
the Jan. 8 version of the regulation.</p><p>Included in the update are
provisions that require active Army commanders to initiate personnel
flagging actions on soldiers who fail to achieve the minimum score on
the Defense Language Proficiency Test after taking remedial training.</p><p>Soldiers
whose records have been flagged generally are not eligible for
career-enhancing personnel actions, such as promotion, re-enlistment and
school attendance.</p><p>The same provision of the regulation requires
that reserve component commanders change a soldier’s military
occupational specialty to 09U (not qualified in MOS) after they fail
their post-remedial DLPT.</p><p>The update defines policies relating to
foreign language proficiency bonuses for special operations soldiers
(CMFs 18, 37 and 38), and Army-funded English language training for
heritage and native-speaking soldiers in military intelligence
specialties and MOS 09L, the specialty for native interpreters and
translators.</p><p>The regulation update stipulates that commissioned
officer area of concentration 35F, human intelligence, is considered a
language-dependent specialty for foreign language proficiency bonus
purposes. The change addresses an earlier administrative error that
resulted in all Branch 35 (Military Intelligence) specialties being
designated as language-dependent for bonus purposes.</p><p>The new policy also clarifies policies governing the award of foreign language proficiency bonuses to Army civilians.</p><p><a href="http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/benefits/pay/allowances/2016/03/03/foreign-language-reg-update-emphasizes-proficiency/81207940/">http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/benefits/pay/allowances/2016/03/03/foreign-language-reg-update-emphasizes-proficiency/81207940/</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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