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...
by duketate | Jan 23, 2019 | News
By Tammy Cario “You started 50 years ago last week,” Jerry Spivey said to Vincent “Vinnie” Zinck who was sitting across a classroom full of students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Jan. 14, “and I started September or October of ‘68.” Despite...
by duketate | Jan 18, 2019 | News
By Natela Cutter The U.S. Army’s senior defense attaché at the American Embassy in Beijing, China had a few things to share with newly-minted Foreign Area Officers who are attending a week-long joint FAO course hosted by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language...
by duketate | Dec 14, 2018 | News
By Natela Cutter Spc. Lingo retired from the Army Dec. 6, after three years of faithful service to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center as the institute’s mascot. On the day of his retirement, Lingo received a certificate that officially...
by duketate | Nov 6, 2018 | News
By Natela Cutter Two members of the Brazilian Army Language Center visited the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Oct. 22-26, to gain knowledge about the inner workings of one of the largest foreign language schools in the nation. Lt. Col. Sergio...
