As if the U.S. wasn’t facing enough problems in Afghanistan, a former employee of a government contractor that supplies interpreters to the U.S. Army said in an ABC News report that more than one quarter of the translators working in the country had failed language proficiency exams, but they were sent onto the battlefield anyway.“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, a former employee of the Ohio-based Mission Essential Personnel, told ABC. “Many who failed were marked as being passed.”
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