Afghan Forces Hobbled by Illiteracy, U.S. Inspector Says
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More than half the members of the Afghan military and police forces are likely to remain illiterate even after the U.S. provides $200 million in tutoring, an independent monitoring agency has found.
“Some command officials responsible for the literacy training program roughly estimated that over half of the force” of about 352,000, “was still illiterate as of February 2013,” according to an audit released today by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. The officials told the auditors that “this low level of literacy is likely to persist through the end of the decade.”