by duketate | Sep 22, 2018 | News
By Natela Cutter MONTEREY, Calif. – Nearly 20 years ago, two young linguists bumped into each other at Army’s Yongsan installation in Seoul, Korea, during a competition then known as the “Language Olympics,” a fun event that military linguists from all over the world...
by duketate | Sep 20, 2018 | News
By Natela Cutter MONTEREY, Calif. – Every Tuesday morning, Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Donehue heads for the Tin Barn, a 1950s building on the Presidio of Monterey, where new students in-process and start the first day of their journey to becoming military linguists by...
by Natela Cutter | Sep 18, 2018 | News
By Natela Cutter MONTEREY, Calif. – As fate would have it, Airman 1st class James Jacobson ended up emulating his father, by going to the same school and studying the same language in Monterey, California, some 23 years later. But on this occasion, Jacobson junior...
by duketate | Sep 1, 2018 | News
By Brian Lepley, Presidio of Monterey PAO Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force foreign language-trained service members and civilians gathered at the Presidio of Monterey to attend the Institute’s Advanced Command Language Program Manager’s Workshop held from Aug. 26-30....
by duketate | Aug 14, 2018 | News
Face to Face There’s an Arab proverb: “Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war.” Each day when Staff Sgt. Alex Rababah wakes up at 4am, he reminds himself of the importance of his job as an instructor at the Defense Language Institute at the...
by duketate | Jun 22, 2018 | News
By Natela Cutter MONTEREY, Calif. – The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges acted to reaffirm the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s accreditation for another seven years in early...
