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SnowballsChance

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Hey Guys, I have several years experience with Japanese and I was wondering what qualifications/conditions made it possible to attend the Language School. If anyone knows or has been I'd be most grateful
 
SnowballsChance said:
Hey Guys, I have several years experience with Japanese and I was wondering what qualifications/conditions made it possible to attend the Language School. If anyone knows or has been I'd be most grateful
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As an officer, not many. The vast majority of the translator types are enlisted. There are some extremely limited opportunities for those who do foreign exchange tours to go through DLI, and perhaps some random other billets for FAOs.

Brett
 
If you do an Olmstead Fellowship (Masters at foriegn university) you can go to DLI, unless you are already fluent.
 
My brother is on the Olmstead Fellowship and just moved over to Turkey. I don't know much about the program but what I hear from him, it is a pretty sweet deal.
 
Brett327 said:
As an officer, not many. The vast majority of the translator types are enlisted. There are some extremely limited opportunities for those who do foreign exchange tours to go through DLI, and perhaps some random other billets for FAOs.
Brett
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Had an O-5, CH-53 driver for a boss once who had previously been (assistant?) Naval Attaché in Japan, and was fluent in Japanese.

We frequently had Japanese military and civilian dignitaries visiting our R&D facility. Because only he knew well the culture and fluently spoke the language, he was the focal point and "old friend" of every Japanese visitor… much to the chagrin of the Admiral and the CO. But he was invaluable to our work.

I don't know how he became fluent, but I assume DLI for the Attaché job since he had always been an "operator", and was even a TPS graduate.

Although rare and probably difficult, it's apparently possible, and can be very valuable.
 
If the Navy deems you have a legitimate (ie required for your job) need to go to the Defense Language Institute, they will send you. You will have to take the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) which will determine what course you will take (basic, intermediate, advanced), or if you can test out by taking the DLI final, the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT).
 
Attachés are usually Captains, I've seen assistants that were CDRs.
 
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