Bringing Language and Cultural Skills to the Battlefield.

FORT LEWIS, Wash. –  Imagine a Soldier, cleaning his weapon in a team room, while in the background you can hear the news being reported in Korean on the TV.  Picture another Soldier having a conversation in Thai or Tagalog, discussing a program of instruction for upcoming training.  The First Special Forces Group (Airborne) emphasizes language and cultural training because they say these are critical skills used in rapport building and daily communication overseas.  more...

FORT LEWIS, Wash. – The language lab at 1^st Special Forces Group (Airborne) on Ft. Lewis, WA is bridging the language gap and offering language and cultural training to all of the Soldiers in the First Special Forces Group.  Soldiers are spending hours in a small classroom setting, learning languages such as Korean, Chinese Mandarin, Tagalog (one of the main languages in the Philippines), Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian and others  more..

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