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Afghanistan committee If I could add, that's what we see as a major advantage of our video-driven--Dari, Pashto, Kadu, Tajik, or whatever is required--training programs: that you don't have to read.
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst
Afghanistan committee It's not all visual, but you could certainly adapt it to dealing with a more illiterate audience. As we all know, people who fight illiteracy aren't stupid; they just can't read. You have to cater to that or you will lose them.
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst
Afghanistan committee It could fit easily under both categories, because our troops who are there are going to be there as trainers teaching technical skills and also--I would assume, within the military setting--military management skills and strategic skills. There is no reason that these very skilled trainers—if they are very skilled trainers, which I'd assume them to be—couldn't be delivering the program and the methodology we've developed, and the same would apply for our RCMP people who've been there, especially in a capacity as mentors, both at NDS and at the ANP.
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst
Afghanistan committee I will say that the SIGAR report, as it's called, is a very good read.
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst
Afghanistan committee Some people say it means India Pale Ale.
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst
Afghanistan committee We do not have a Web site because it is very expensive. There are only the two of us, and up to now, we focused exclusively on the development of training programs. It is as simple as that.
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst
Afghanistan committee Roughly, yes. This amount does not include security and transport costs, but does include program development and delivery.
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst
Afghanistan committee We work primarily with NDS, our colleagues in Washington and the national police, but not really with the armed forces. However it is possible that this kind of training has already started with our forces and others.
December 1st, 2010Committee meeting
Geoff Poapst