The road to healing starts with teal

The road to healing starts with teal

By Tammy Cario In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the National Organization for Victim Advocates named Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s own Dawn Holmes, a sexual assault prevention and response victim advocate, Exceptional Military Victim...
Thinking outside the box for your AFSC

Thinking outside the box for your AFSC

By Tammy Cario When you think of jobs that require foreign languages, air traffic controller is not usually first on that list. Especially since English is the international language of air traffic control. “English language is a little more concise than other (major)...
A new old way of learning languages

A new old way of learning languages

By Tammy Cario If you were to ask the average service member, chances are they would not equate military classes with a flexible learning system. The military, perhaps by definition, is rigid with rules and regulations. The Hebrew classroom here at the Defense...
Be careful what you wish for

Be careful what you wish for

By Natela Cutter Be careful what you wish for if you’re a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate! You could easily end up catapulted into a world crisis where leaders are clinging to your every word, making crucial national security decisions...
Three generations at DLIFLC help make history

Three generations at DLIFLC help make history

By Tammy Cario It’s not often you can say you attended school with your future father-in-law. When Pete Weldon attended the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language center to study Korean in 1957, he began dating Marcia Houston, only to discover her father, William...