<p>*BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University’s Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to provide language and culture training to 70 senior U.S. military officials who will command and participate in 12 U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan.
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IU is the only U.S. university which offers accredited courses and develops training materials in Pashto, as well as several other strategic languages spoken in Central Asia. This will be the first time that such PRT training has been on a campus and away from the military base, said Paul Foster, director of the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region.
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