Army Special Forces Foreign Language Program.

This is our final quick-reaction audit report on the Army Special Forces Foreign Language Program. This audit was performed as part of an ongoing audit of Special Operations Forces Training Programs. The objective of our overall project is to determine whether Special Operations Forces SOF training courses and joint training exercises, training equipment and facilities, and the related budgeting for SOF training requirements are managed efficiently and effectively. For this segment of the project we evaluated the U.S. Army Special Operations Command USASOC plans for developing a Basic Military Language Course BMLC and for revising the Army Special Forces Functional Language Course SFFLC, at a combined estimated cost of 70 million. Because additional funds were to be expended imminently for the BMLC, we concluded that prompt management action was needed to coordinate other language requirements for incorporation into the plans and to ensure that the BMLC is cost-effective. This report addresses only the conditions pertaining to the BMLC and the SFFLC. Conditions on the overall SOF Training Program will be addressed in a separate report.