Courtesy Story | Naval Postgraduate School | 08.09.2024
MONTEREY, Calif. - U.S. Marines attended the Joint Foreign Area Officer Course (JFAOC), Phase I, at the Naval Postgraduate School and U.S. Army Garrison Presidio of Monterey, California, June 24-28, 2024....
Story by AFCLC Maxwell | Air Force Culture and Language Center | 04.25.2023
Congratulations to Language Enabled Airmen Program Scholars recently selected to the Foreign Area Officer career field! The International Affairs Development Team boarded and selected 22 officers for deliberate development and re-core as FAOs. Of the 22 selectees, 16 are LEAP Scholars, a 73% selection rate from LEAP....
Story by Patrick Bray | USAG Humphreys | 02.10.2023
Approximately 60 U.S. Army officers from around the Korean peninsula attended an information briefing at Eighth Army Headquarters Feb. 7 to learn more about a little-known Army-career field: the foreign area officer program....
Story by Mikala McCurry | Air Force Culture and Language Center | 05.02.2022
The 16F/16Z Development Team boarded and selected 39 officers for deliberate development and re-core as FAOs. Of the 39 selectees, 28 are LEAP Scholars, a 72% selection rate from LEAP....
Story by Kurt Van Slooten | Center for Information Warfare Training | 04.25.2022
James Lewis, senior language authority and director of the Navy Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture (LREC) office and Cryptologic Technician Interpretive Master Chief Kenneth Paulsen, senior rating advisor for the CTI rating to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare/Director of Naval Intelligence, visited the Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) on Corry......
Story by AFCLC Maxwell | Air Force Culture and Language Center | 01.14.2022
"The ability of AFCLC to be forward-thinking and enable USAF students to flex their curriculum to anticipate future DOD needs is highly important. The bottom-up nature of the Language Enabled Airman Program allows students to be more agile in matching their interests and capabilities to emerging DOD needs more than a top-down, requirements-based bureaucracy could ever be," LEAP Scholar and FAO......
Story by AFCLC Maxwell | Air Force Culture and Language Center | 06.29.2021
“As a first-generation American, I grew up speaking Arabic at home, but any person who grew up speaking a language colloquially knows that speaking at home does not prepare you to engage at a high level with foreign partners. My Arabic proficiency before LEAP did not possess the vocabulary to match my vocation. The training I received through LEAP has equipped me with the confidence and......
Story by Christine June | George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies | 10.05.2018
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – A team of U.S. Defense Department language and education officials saw firsthand the mission and contributions to the U.S. national defense strategy of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies’ programs and events during a visit here Sept. 27 and 28. “We were looking at how the Marshall Center’s mission contributes to our defense......
