When signals intelligence meets field training

When signals intelligence meets field training

By Tammy Cario Languages aren’t the only thing being taught here at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Army Capt. Matthew Hughes, commander of Company C. 229th Military Intelligence Battalion at the Presidio of Monterey, believes his Soldiers with...
Life after a Ph.D.

Life after a Ph.D.

By Tammy Cario With fluency in two foreign languages, a Ph.D. in music arts and a possible Officer Training School appointment in his future, you might think that Airman 1st Class Toan Tran likes to learn. “That’s what my mom says,” laughed Tran. You and his mother...
A friendship reconnected at DLIFLC

A friendship reconnected at DLIFLC

By Tammy Cario “You started 50 years ago last week,” Jerry Spivey said to Vincent “Vinnie” Zinck who was sitting across a classroom full of students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Jan. 14, “and I started September or October of ‘68.” Despite...
Top Army attaché to China gives advice to FAOs

Top Army attaché to China gives advice to FAOs

By Natela Cutter The U.S. Army’s senior defense attaché at the American Embassy in Beijing, China had a few things to share with newly-minted Foreign Area Officers who are attending a week-long joint FAO course hosted by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language...