A year after the U.S. left him behind in Afghanistan, Will cannot understand what happened.
He served at Camp Shouz in the country’s western Herat Province, working as an interpreter for U.S. troops and contractors as they negotiated with village elders and worked to train Afghan police recruits.
Will, a pseudonym The Washington Times is using to protect his identity, has glowing recommendations from a U.S. Army major who called him “one of my most trusted interpreters.” Yet Will is stuck in a bureaucratic battle with the State Department, which told him his file isn’t complete and he can’t come to the U.