Army Special Forces Foreign Language Program.

Abstract

This is our final quick-reaction audit report on the Army Special Forces Foreign Language Program. This audit was performed as part of an ongoing audit of Special Operations Forces Training Programs. The objective of our overall project is to determine whether Special Operations Forces (SOF) training courses and joint training exercises, training equipment and facilities, and the related budgeting for SOF training requirements are managed efficiently and effectively. For this segment of the project we evaluated the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) plans for developing a Basic Military Language Course (BMLC) and for revising the Army Special Forces Functional Language Course (SFFLC), at a combined estimated cost of $70 million. Because additional funds were to be expended imminently for the BMLC, we concluded that prompt management action was needed to coordinate other language requirements for incorporation into the plans and to ensure that the BMLC is cost-effective. This report addresses only the conditions pertaining to the BMLC and the SFFLC. Conditions on the overall SOF Training Program will be addressed in a separate report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 27, 1991
Accession Number
ADA378829

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Congress
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Analysis
  • Foreign Languages
  • Green Berets
  • Language
  • Low Intensity Conflict
  • National Guard
  • Psychological Operations
  • Special Forces
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Training
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.