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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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09-19-2009, 10:03 PM
zuludelta
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Zuludelta, I got to hand it to you. The amount of research you've done and the plethora of military information you've accumulated and organized is vastly helpful.
Glad I could be of help
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You must have read an incredible number of books on the subject. Do you have a military background as well?
Well, I was in the Philippine Army Reserve (
1302nd Community Defense Center, NCR RCDG - Reserve Infantry
) for a couple of years as part of my national service requirement (although I spent most of the second year of my service teaching arithmetic at an urban orphanage). Most of my knowledge of Western (in particular, American) militaria comes from my own research though, and to some extent, my interactions with people in the US military (I've got acquaintances, friends/ex-girlfriends, and family working in the DoD).
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I'd be particularly interested in learning more about the Army's Language School during the Vietnam era or the Defensive Language Institute as it's now known if you have any info or can provide some good links.
Don't have any info (beyond the stuff on the DLI's site and wiki) on the Vietnam-era Army Language School on hand right now, but I'll let you know if I come across anything.
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I'm working on an extensive background bio for Duke and Stalker and was wondering if their initial MOS should have been translator-interpreter (04B) or if exceptional infantryman were sometimes given a chance to attend this school.
AFAIK, the translator-interpreter MOS is a fairly new one (in the active Army, at least). The Army's translator-interpreter MOS was purely a Reserve Component job until relatively recently (can't remember when it became an active component MOS... 2003, I think?).
That doesn't mean that Active Army soldiers weren't trained at the DLI prior to the change, though. All it means is that they didn't receive official status as translators/interpreters MOS-wise or pay-wise. SF sends their soldiers to DLI for functional language training all the time, and qualified personnel (regardless of MOS) can be sent to DLI as required or on the recommendation of their commanders.
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