[lg policy] U.S. Military Benefits From Foreign Language Training

Harold Schiffman hfsclpp at GMAIL.COM
Wed Aug 12 22:08:50 UTC 2009


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U.S. Military Benefits From Foreign Language Training



No training is more crucial to the U.S. military than education in
critical foreign languages and cultures, the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff said yesterday.

Speaking at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., Navy
Adm. Mike Mullen told students that their lessons in the languages of
Afghanistan and Iraq, for instance, have potential to pay great
dividends.



Full story:

http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=37387






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