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The Defense Language Institute provides language
training to military personnel so they can

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conduct operations.

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At the Information Warfare Training Command
we also provide Sailor professionalization

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to enhance their language training so that
they can conduct operations out in the fleet.

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Back around 1941 it was recognized that we
needed a foreign language capability within

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our armed forces and so the first language
school was developed up at Crissy Field at

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the Presidio of San Francisco.

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During the WWII period the school moved a
couple times and after WWII the school finally

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settled here at the Presidio of Monterey where
it remains today.

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I always thought it was really cool when other
people spoke different languages.

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I'm from southern California so most people
are bilingual.

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In High School we had to take Spanish, but
it wasn't really something that I got too into.

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I had no idea what Farsi was, I didn't even
know where they spoke that before I got here.

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The language training ranges anywhere from
nine months to 64 weeks, depending on the

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difficulty of the language.

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We have them in class about seven to nine
hours a day.

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And then after that they can have up to three
hours of homework.

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That's not even including study time.

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So study time is one to two hours on top of
three hours of homework.

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They have to fit that in between their PT
schedules and any other requirements such

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as the GMTs that we have for them.

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It's all about time management here and really
being motivated to keep up that drive.

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Especially now that we're in third semester
we're not supposed to speak English in the

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halls, we're not supposed to speak English
in the classrooms.

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They kind of force you to be comfortable with
speaking the language.

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So as CTIs we are at the forefront of intelligence
gathering, both at the point of collection

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and at the point of dissemination.

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Information warfare is what we specialize
in.

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Every day we are reminded by our CO here that
we are here to deliver a warfighting skill,

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not just to teach a language.