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1950 is the number of miles I've put on my bike since last July
Vegetarian is preferred, but I love turkey... ham is pretty good.
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I'm a military brat, so we lived in a lot of places growing up.
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Health benefits mostly. Only because the American diet typically has a lot more protein than is necessary.
My dad was AF, and I followed in his footsteps. Been in about 5 years, and it's been really great. Where are you going school at? ROTC is a really good program for scholarships and prepping you for the military when you get there.
My dad was AF, and I followed in his footsteps. Been in about 5 years, and it's been really great. Where are you going school at? ROTC is a really good program for scholarships and prepping you for the military when you get there.
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Bitnd12
Children, get your hearts right.
I have an application in at the US Military Academy at West Point and I'm just waiting to hear from them. I should know by March. Not exactly ROTC, but it's the officer route, so I just generalized. Its difficult to explain to people who have no idea and I'd rather skip the hassle and confusion in that case.
If I don't get in, I'll spend at year as a civie in college, reapply to West Point the next year and settle on an ROTC program if it doesn't work. If that's the case, I'll consider the Marine Corps, but I'm pretty certain I'm an Army girl. Either way, butter bars are callin' my name.
The Air Force is cool. One of my very good friend's dad was in the Air Force for over 20 years and retired as E-8 SMSgt from the Reserves out of Eglin, and now my friend has a free ride to college with AFROTC. What's your MOS...er, AFSC?
And thanks for your service!
If I don't get in, I'll spend at year as a civie in college, reapply to West Point the next year and settle on an ROTC program if it doesn't work. If that's the case, I'll consider the Marine Corps, but I'm pretty certain I'm an Army girl. Either way, butter bars are callin' my name.
The Air Force is cool. One of my very good friend's dad was in the Air Force for over 20 years and retired as E-8 SMSgt from the Reserves out of Eglin, and now my friend has a free ride to college with AFROTC. What's your MOS...er, AFSC?
And thanks for your service!
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Wow, West Point, that's awesome! I understand just saying ROTC, it's a bit of an explanation. 
As an AF member I'm obliged to remind you that AF officers get treated better. Since you're considering the Marines, though it looks like you definitely know what you want! That's really cool.
I am a linguist (1N3) right now. I'm an Arabic linguist and am attending school for Swahili. I can't really complain about the military considering they've paid for me to become tri-lingual as well as given me a security clearance. It's a pretty sweet gig. (especially when the economy is struggling)
As an AF member I'm obliged to remind you that AF officers get treated better.
Since you're considering the Marines, though it looks like you definitely know what you want! That's really cool.I am a linguist (1N3) right now. I'm an Arabic linguist and am attending school for Swahili. I can't really complain about the military considering they've paid for me to become tri-lingual as well as given me a security clearance. It's a pretty sweet gig. (especially when the economy is struggling)
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Bitnd12
Children, get your hearts right.
Oh, how AWESOME. That's EXACTLY what I want to be doing. At USMA, I'd like to major in International Relations and minor in Arabic or a similar combination. I figure that if the American taxpayer is going to pay for my education, I may as well be as useful to the defense of our country as possible. I'm working on Rosetta Stone's Level I Arabic right now and I also speak conversational German through my family. I'd like to also look into Korean. And I've heard that another now-in-demand language besides Arabic and the African languages (I'm a little surprised to read that you're learning Swahili- Cool!) is Chinese. I know I have the aptitude for language so I'm curious to see what I'll be doing with myself in the military in a few years. Time will tell, I guess.
I'm guessing that you are taking courses at the DLI in Monterey?
I'm guessing that you are taking courses at the DLI in Monterey?
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The major languages for us right now are Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Persian Farsi, as well as a bunch of languages they speak in spots in Afgahnistan. (Urdu, Pashtu, and some others nobody's ever heard of.) Rosetta stone is a really great program, but if you ever do end up in a military language course, you'll pass through level one in a bout a week or two. The Arabic class is a 63 week long course designed to make you proficient by the end.
Arabic was at DLI, which was pretty cool, but probably 99% of the students there are enlisted first termers there for tech school. As an officer, you'll likely be headed to DLI "East" which is in DC, (where I am currently) and you'll have a lot more opportunities for different languages. Right now there are officers here for French, Spanish, Japanese, I mean everything. They're on their way to do embassy duty and country relations stuff instead of the intelligence field.
I didn't know they offered Arabic at West Point. (I never looked into it) That's pretty cool.
Ich spreche nur ein bischen Deutsch.
Arabic was at DLI, which was pretty cool, but probably 99% of the students there are enlisted first termers there for tech school. As an officer, you'll likely be headed to DLI "East" which is in DC, (where I am currently) and you'll have a lot more opportunities for different languages. Right now there are officers here for French, Spanish, Japanese, I mean everything. They're on their way to do embassy duty and country relations stuff instead of the intelligence field.
I didn't know they offered Arabic at West Point. (I never looked into it) That's pretty cool.
Ich spreche nur ein bischen Deutsch.
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Bitnd12
Children, get your hearts right.
Yeah, Arabic is a fairly new program at West Point. Mostly since 9/11. The Academy also offers FAEP, the Foreign Academy Exchange Program, and Arabic majoring Cadets are given the opportunity to spend their spring break in Jordan, Kuwait, and I think Saudi Arabia at the other respective foreign Academies or even at a civie college. (Cadets majoring in other languages go all over the world too, it isn't exclusively an Arabic thing) West Point offers other programs depending on fluency, too. For example, I know a woman who spent one semester of her junior year at the French École Polytechnique (The French USMA, for lack of a better term) and then spent a semester of her senior year at a civie University outside of Paris. Sweet gig, if you can put up with the French.
Embassy duty would be cool eventually, but I'd like to get out in the field and really USE the skills that I learned, you know what I mean? Otherwise, all you're doing is paper pushing and hangin' out with Embassy Marines. Plus, I'm not sure that being on Embassy duty with a background in Arabic as a female would be... uh, empowering. But my thoughts on the Middle East and how Islam ties in are a whole other rant.
Anywho, I'm jealous, bassist, you seem like you've got yourself in a great spot.
Oh ja?! Wunderschön! Bist du jemals in Deutschland gewesen? Ich war erst einmal in Deutschland weil meine Großmutter hat familie im Köln und ich habe eine Freundin in Bayern. Es ist soooooo schön und toll... Die Leute sind erstaunlich und so freundlich.
Können Sie mich verstehen? Ich hoffe.
Tschüss, bassist!
Embassy duty would be cool eventually, but I'd like to get out in the field and really USE the skills that I learned, you know what I mean? Otherwise, all you're doing is paper pushing and hangin' out with Embassy Marines. Plus, I'm not sure that being on Embassy duty with a background in Arabic as a female would be... uh, empowering. But my thoughts on the Middle East and how Islam ties in are a whole other rant.
Anywho, I'm jealous, bassist, you seem like you've got yourself in a great spot.
Oh ja?! Wunderschön! Bist du jemals in Deutschland gewesen? Ich war erst einmal in Deutschland weil meine Großmutter hat familie im Köln und ich habe eine Freundin in Bayern. Es ist soooooo schön und toll... Die Leute sind erstaunlich und so freundlich.Können Sie mich verstehen? Ich hoffe.
Tschüss, bassist!
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I've been to Germany a couple times, in High School. I took it in high school and can understand about 80% of spoken German. I understand German WAAAAY better than I speak it. (learning all those other languages in between really hampered it)
If you take Arabic, you won't be at an embassy. I actually wouldn't mind some of the gigs that officer Arab-lings get, but as a single dad I need to stay stateside and deploy as little as possible.
If you take Arabic, you won't be at an embassy. I actually wouldn't mind some of the gigs that officer Arab-lings get, but as a single dad I need to stay stateside and deploy as little as possible.
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