Afghanistan in the rear view mirror...

lipton_hot_tea said:
Many of the families including the working age men are illiterate in their native language. There is no way they were professionals working for a contractor like Mission Essential or an NGO.

How do they vet people with false birthdates?
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It's tough. Birth dates are often an estimate there. People with IDs have printed "official" birth dates. Another issue is spelling. Some of our allies have names spelled multiple ways on different documents, due to translation errors.
 
DS who recently returned from a Middle East deployment (1LT Platoon leader) is dealing with incoming stateside refugees now.

There is a shortage of female soldiers to work with the Afghan women and so his female enlisted crew members are working long crazy shifts to keep up. And of course, some of the women soldiers (combat trained, mind you) are getting a bit disrespected by the male afghans due to the cultural gap.

DS and his platoon is a highly trained armored combat unit, skilled in the use of M1A2 Abrams tanks to close with and destroy the enemy.

Now they are social workers.

At least he is getting an intense short course in HR management!
 
AROTC-dad said:
DS who recently returned from a Middle East deployment (1LT Platoon leader) is dealing with incoming stateside refugees now.

There is a shortage of female soldiers to work with the Afghan women and so his female enlisted crew members are working long crazy shifts to keep up. And of course, some of the women soldiers (combat trained, mind you) are getting a bit disrespected by the male afghans due to the cultural gap.

DS and his platoon is a highly trained armored combat unit, skilled in the use of M1A2 Abrams tanks to close with and destroy the enemy.

Now they are social workers.

At least he is getting an intense short course in HR management!
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Quite a switch from movement to contact to movement to social impact. Now your DS will see what the Army Civil Affairs
side does. The best of luck to him.
 
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raimius said:
It's tough. Birth dates are often an estimate there. People with IDs have printed "official" birth dates. Another issue is spelling. Some of our allies have names spelled multiple ways on different documents, due to translation errors.
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Do you know what they have done in the past for people from areas that don't keep vital records?


I can only imagine the transliteration variance is just the start of it. Especially now we use computer records and not hard copies I bet there are a lot of headaches due to misspellings. There aren't 5 files for the same person with different spellings on the same shelf that someone can catch.
 
lipton_hot_tea said:
Do you know what they have done in the past for people from areas that don't keep vital records?


I can only imagine the transliteration variance is just the start of it. Especially now we use computer records and not hard copies I bet there are a lot of headaches due to misspellings. There aren't 5 files for the same person with different spellings on the same shelf that someone can catch.
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I would think you pick one document as the "authoritative" one and file everything under that spelling.
 
Unconfirmed reports over the weekend state that the lights are back on at Bagram and Military Planes (reportedly Chinese) have been making landings and departures. Since it is not believed that the Taliban has the ability to operate the airfield grid required for power or flight operations no one knows for sure but I am sure it's not tourist flights. Also power rationing causing major blackouts for Kabul and everywhere else in Afghanistan since the Taliban has not paid their electric bills to the countries providing power. Wow who would figure that Afghanistan gets all it's local civilian power from other countries in the region since they don't have their own power plants within country. Talk about the Dark Ages.
 
Don't think it was worse than helicopters off the roof but but it was bad
 
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