Their mission is to end that cycle of not knowing. They make it their priority to teach Airmen of all ranks what they need to know before going off into the unknown.
“When AFCLC was [established] in 2007, the intent was to create more cross culture competent Airmen across the Air Force,” said Gregory Day, AFCLC director of staff. “There’s no better place to start than Maxwell, because nearly everyone in the Air Force comes here at some point in their career for added military education.”
The idea was to implement these programs inside the Professional Military Education schools as a way to build cross-cultural Airmen over time.
As one of their priorities, the AFCLC offers general culture training, where they instill a basic understanding of culture in areas to which Airmen are deploying.
Their services don’t end there. A partnership with the Defense Language Institute allows them to have five DLI personnel on their staff to teach elective language courses to officers.
The language courses offered in the officer PME schools are German, French, Chinese and Spanish. In addition to the language elective courses, the AFCLC has expeditionary skills training.
“We offer language, region and culture curriculum education and training across the spectrum and a continuum of learning across Maxwell,” Day said. “Every Airman who leaves Maxwell should knowing something about the cultural foundations of our world.”
For more information about the AFCLC, visit their website at http://culture.af.mil/index.html.
Date Taken: | 02.07.2018 |
Date Posted: | 02.08.2018 14:51 |
Story ID: | 265257 |
Location: | MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, AL, US |
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