Local Chinese instructors pay it forward

Local Chinese instructors pay it forward

By Mission Public Affairs On Friday, April 17, two Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center instructors and a doctor with Standford Children’s Health, representing the Monterey Chinese Antivirus Team, donated 500 N95 masks, 30 gowns, and 318 medical...
Training in the time of coronavirus

Training in the time of coronavirus

By Tammy Cario Between the end of December 2019 and March 2020, the coronavirus disease, or COVID-19, spread like wildfire to six continents. In this new world where health conditions develop rapidly from one minute to the next, phrases like “fluid situation” and...
IWTC Monterey Sailors Move to Virtual Learning

IWTC Monterey Sailors Move to Virtual Learning

By Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Ian Wyatt, Information Warfare Training Command Monterey MONTEREY, Calif. – On any given weekday morning, the Presidio of Monterey, home of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC), is bustling with...
A new avenue for conflict resolution

A new avenue for conflict resolution

By Tammy Cario DLIFLC Public Affairs Communication is a fundamental part of the human experience. Both verbal and nonverbal cues are important to any relationship, personal or otherwise. Relationships in the workplace are no exception. Human communication is complex...
Fall of the Berlin Wall: a DLIFLC perspective

Fall of the Berlin Wall: a DLIFLC perspective

By Natela Cutter The night the Berlin Wall fell, Nov. 9, 1989, Feridon Namdar was at home watching television with his wife. Excitement had been in the air for days, if not weeks, as hundreds of reporters transmitted their broadcasts from the Wall, waiting for it to...
A non-traditional approach to operations

A non-traditional approach to operations

By Tammy Cario DLIFLC Public Affairs On the second floor of the headquarters building, in the deputy chief of staff for operations offices toward the back wall, is the new DCSOPS director’s office. Joseph Kuykendall, a former Defense Language Institute Foreign...