by Tamara Cario | Mar 22, 2019 | News
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...
by Tamara Cario | Mar 8, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario The words inscribed at the feet of Lady Liberty, “”Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…,” might well have been written with someone like Waseem Abdo in mind. He, along with 24 other applicants, officially...
by Tamara Cario | Mar 1, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario Languages aren’t the only thing being taught here at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Army Capt. Matthew Hughes, commander of Company C. 229th Military Intelligence Battalion at the Presidio of Monterey, believes his Soldiers with...
by Tamara Cario | Feb 13, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario They say life happens when you make plans. In the case of Michel Ashi and Marah Al-Masri, life happened when they didn’t make plans. “We both lived in Los Angeles,” Marah said, Michel next to her at the table. “We never crossed paths. Never met at all.”...
by Tamara Cario | Jan 28, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario With fluency in two foreign languages, a Ph.D. in music arts and a possible Officer Training School appointment in his future, you might think that Airman 1st Class Toan Tran likes to learn. “That’s what my mom says,” laughed Tran. You and his mother...
