The 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.

The change to the rule, AR 11-6 (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.

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.

Soldiers whose records have been flagged generally are not eligible for career-enhancing personnel actions, such as promotion, re-enlistment and school attendance.

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.

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.

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.

The new policy also clarifies policies governing the award of foreign language proficiency bonuses to Army civilians.

The updated regulation can be accessed at the Army Publishing Directorate web site at http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r11_6.pdf.

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