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The good thing about learning Farsi now is that they've been putting the Farsi linguists through a Dari conversion course. This way they can operate in Afghanistan as well as Iran, if needed.

I'm an instructor at Goodfellow and the big languages coming through now are Arabic (still the overwhelming majority), Korean, Spanish and then there are ones and twos that come through in Pashto...

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If you are stationed with a Radio BN (FMF) you will have the chance to run the Radio Recon Indoc and become a member of a Radio Recon team. The chance that...

When you get to DLI, part of your check in paper work will include a list of your top 3 picks for what language you want to learn, but the ultimate dicision is based on what classes have seats...

It also depends on what kind of "Intel" your talking about. I don't know much about the 0200 field, but us 2600's are on alot of the patrols and operations with the grunts. We aren't "thrown in" with...

Your schooling at the Defense Language Institute will vary from 6 months to a year and a half depending on your language. You will spend around 6 hours in class Monday through Friday. Outside of...

The way I heard it was not that there were no officers in Cuba, but none died. When I was down there I saw a bunch of memorials to enlisted, but nothing about and officer.

True story, You'll see when you get there that Cpl is the new Pvt. That's ok Osborne you ain't never pickin up, I'll make sure of it. Glad you're leavin thought I'm sick of teaching ya'll and seeing...

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I just went through a divorce about a year ago. You stop rating BAH and Comrats the day your divorce is finalized and filed unless kids are involved, then you are allowed to keep BAH and comrats to...

His family will be in my prayers. Its heros like him that everybody should be talking about.

Ours is this Saturday. Free tickets for us and dates, open bar, just paying for what we drink out at the bars afterwards

The hardest part of being a Marine is losing brothers. Boot camps tough, MOS school yea that too, but its friends not making it home that is the hardest thing of all to deal with.

Hussaf,

From what I've seen the failure rate is about the same (percentage wise) for all services. Of course the army and AF have more students fail, but they also have a **** ton more seats in...

I am a 2671 (Arabic Crypto linguist) currently an instructor at Goodfellow (267X Tech school) so I see pretty much every Marine that graduates DLI. Getting there and having a car is exactly how...

We're always looking for people in the 267X field. There are loads of things to do when you get out as well.

So the guy volunteers for a Combat tour then returns home to protest the war he volunteered to fight in?!! WTF? Somebody wan't loved enough growing up.

Congrats and welcome aboard.

That's friggin hilarious!!!!!!