Three semesters of college arabic will actually transfer to Pashto as well as Arabic... You'll still get schooled by the specialists who failed out of first semester Arabic at DLI, but that's all you'll need for basic Pashto (beyond that, the higher level vocab is all that transfers)
Pashto without a doubt, that and some Dari (if you think you'll end up in Kandahar province), otherwise, the farther north you end up (Konar and north, especially up to Ningahah - where most instructors are from, it's pure Pakhto/Pashto)
DLI (Monterey or Washtington) is where they'd send you, in practical terms you'd be most likely to be pushed into the Af-Pak hands program (since you already know the script, you'd be ahead in that regard), but it's only a 16wk program, is only oriented towards being able to handle ILR Level 1 conversational topics and survival/tactical level stuff. Great program for what it is, and you'd shine at that, but it essentially takes you only as far as glad-handing in the bazaar, and meet and greets with local elders.
You have access to the Rosetta Stone applications, and there is DLI Head-Start material out there (quickest way to learn the other 7 letters you'll have to pick up, and maybe get some pronunciation guide stuff). Rosetta stone sucks, most of the DLI materials are tailored to language maintenance (and aren't very good at that), and jumping right into reading VOA or BBC Pashto is going to be a huge stretch.
Afghanistan is hardly played out - we'll still need huge amounts of people who are able to interact with locals and work on reconstruction projects, even if the troop # footprint has dropped, the guys who speak the language and understand the culture will still be in demand.
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