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Pre-deployment preparations for Airmen include extensive training, language courses, and field guides. The field guide books and pamphlets provide an overview of the country that the service members will be traveling too. While helpful, many of the hard copy guides end up lost in the piles of pre-deployment paperwork. Thankfully, there’s an app for that.
Taking the traditional expeditionary military field guides, experts at the Air Force Culture and Language Center have developed an app that puts culture and language tips in your pocket. The culture-packed, pocket-sized technology is free and available to anyone with an iPhone or Android. To date, more than 10,000 service members around the world have downloaded AFCLC’s app and are taking advantage of the new technology.
“It was designed to work without WiFi,” said Howard Ward, the Air Force Culture and Language Center’s director, “just search ‘AFCLC’ in the app store and it will download the field guides to your phone. They are uniquely tailored to bring any branch’s men and women into culture while they are immersed in it. We are always excited to continue to produce regional expertise training and education products to our Air Force”.
The guides cover 27 African, nine Pacific, six Europe, three Middle East (Central Command) and one South American location, totaling in 46 countries. There are seven more guides in queue for 2018. Users can select what field guides they want to download and save them to their phone. Regional and academic leaders at AFCLC work daily to update the apps and provide input to improve the technology.
“Our field guides are specifically designed with a number of uses in mind, but only one single operator: the Airman,” Ward said.
| Date Taken: | 03.14.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 03.14.2018 15:20 |
| Story ID: | 269398 |
| Location: | MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, US |
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