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 Presidio of Monterey.
A quarter century after 9/11: DLIFLC’s defining moment
Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center can look back on a moment that fundamentally transformed its mission, resources and role in national security.
Just months before the attacks, newly appointed DLIFLC Commandant Col. Kevin Rice was confronting a series of seemingly unrelated challenges. The Institute faced mounting financial pressures, including soaring utility costs and an unfunded locality pay increase for faculty and staff.
