President Obama is delivering the commencement address at the Military Academy at West Point on Wednesday where he is expected to detail future plans for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. The president laid out the basic outline in a Rose Garden appearance on Tuesday which calls for an almost complete withdrawal of troops by the end of 2016, save for a “normal embassy presence in Kabul, with a security assistance component,” similar to Iraq. However, almost as soon as the president leaves West Point, the soldiers there will continue to train for duty in Arabic-speaking lands as revealed by documents recently posted online.

In April, the Army posted a solicitation for “English / Arabic Linguist Role Players” to act “as part of situational exercises and as interpreters as part of those exercises at the US Military Academy, West Point, NY for the period of 31 May 2014 thru 16 June 2014.” This week, a contract for $147,896.23 was awarded to Lexicon Consulting of El Cajon, Cali. to provide forty-five individuals to participate in the two-and-a-half weeks of exercises.  While the contract does not spell out all of the details of the scenarios to be acted out, there are some clues in the accompanying documents about what will be involved, from basic interpreting to “physical searches, crowd control, or detention” simulations: