by Tamara Cario | Mar 28, 2019 | News
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...
by Tamara Cario | Mar 22, 2019 | News
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...
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 duketate | Mar 7, 2019 | News
Story by Joseph Kumzak, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. — The Marine Corps Detachment hosted a memorialization ceremony March 1 to dedicate its new barracks to a fallen Marine and Defense Language Institute alumnus. The Presidio...
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...