[SandRat]

Sgt. Benjamin Cho tries to balance guard duty while communicating with native "Iraqis" during a training exercise Wednesday at Site Uniform on Fort Huachuca. The exercise involved human intelligence collectors and the procedure followed in order to get credible information. (Ed Honda-Herald/Review)

[SandRat]

FR WAR NEWS!

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All the News the MSM refuses to use!

[Rembrandt]

I went to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey to learn North Vietnamese and I was always rated at the top of the rating scale throughout school and my service time.

Nonetheless, I never felt like I began to approach fluency until I went to VN 25 years later to live and work and subsequently to have an apartment with my VN girlfriend. She and I only spoke in VN. After a few years, I began to dream in VN and even to think in VN; still I have never made it to fluency, in my opinion.

Hoping to be fluent in an interrogation situation pre-supposes that the interrogator is up to speed on the current street slang -- fat chance.

Gary