From what I've read, they started replacing the local interpreters with soldiers because they couldn't guarantee safety of the interpreters' families and the risk of exposure was deemed too high. A soldier who's an interpreter is trained to kill - a local interpreter usually isn't. It's now considered a last-resort sort of measure to use someone local to interpret. (The US evacuated a lot of the people they used as local interpreters for safety/military protocol reasons after the first Iraq War. Not sure if any other of the coalition countries did the same.)
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Date: 2020-09-14 04:13 am (UTC)