DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER
AND PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY
Presidio of Monterey, CA 93944-5006
Office of the Garrison Commander
Dear Newcomer,
Greetings from the Presidio of Monterey, California! As the Garrison Commander, allow me to extend a warm welcome on behalf of the entire Presidio community. We take pride in providing you with a smooth transition into our community. Monterey is a rich and diverse city, having a colorful history coupled with progressive technology. The Presidio is home to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, the finest school for linguist training in the world, where you will be either studying or working in the near future.
It is the mission of the Presidio Garrison to provide you and your family members with the best support possible. There are several organizations to help you and your family gain the most from your time here. They include: Army Community Service, the Mayors Program, and Unit Family Support Groups. More information on each of these organizations is included in this book.
Expect your stay at the Presidio to be pleasant, rewarding, and fulfilling. Should you experience any problem upon arrival, contact the appropriate service organization to have it resolved. Their phone numbers are listed in this pamphlet. Our service-minded personnel are ready to help you enjoy your stay with us, and we look forward to your arrival. You will be challenged, so be prepared to become part of this dynamic and motivated team.
The Presidio of Monterey has hundreds of dedicated professionals working to provide you with total family support as well as educational and recreational activities. Please take advantage of these excellent opportunities.
Sincerely,
Peter G. Dausen
Colonel, U.S. Army
Garrison Commander
THE MISSION OF THE DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (DLI)
The Defense Language Institute provides resident foreign language instruction in support of national security requirements, supports and evaluates command language programs worldwide, conducts academic research into the language learning process, and administers a worldwide standard test and evaluation system.
The Institute provides quality foreign language training for members of the United States armed forces and other government agencies. The Institute's major goal is to ensure that graduates meet the requirements of the agencies assigning them to foreign language study. The institute must therefore provide instructional programs that are responsive to the foreign language needs of a wide variety of military positions throughout the world.
These programs must meet high standards so that students can develop functional language skills for professional use in real-world communications situations.
DLI recognizes the value of both education and training in providing language instruction. The school follows a systems approach to instruction, with the principal of job-relevant instruction central to curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation. Instruction is student-oriented so that effective learning can take place.
Languages cannot be learned well in a cultural vacuum. Language and culture are intricately intertwined. Therefore, at DLI, language skills are developed to incorporate the value systems, behavior patterns, institutions, geography, and political, economic, and social systems of the areas where the target language is spoken.
To provide the highest quality instruction, DLI supports a number of programs which assist DLI faculty and staff members to reach their full professional potential. The Institute also directs research into the development of computer-assisted language learning programs. DLI also manages some foreign language training which is offered by private contractors and the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC.
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center coat of arms symbolizes the mission, goals and origins, of the organization. The upper portion of the escutcheon is blue, signifying the peacetime mission. The field is charged with a symbolic representation of the Rosetta Stone which gave scholars the first clues to the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone signifies language as the chief instrument for the attainment of understanding with other nations of the world.
The lower portion of the shield is red, representing the wartime mission of the school. This portion is charged with the helmet of the San Carlos Catalan Volunteers, Spanish troops attached to the expedition which founded the Presidio of Monterey in 1770. The helmet stands for the military aspect and rich historical character of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and the Presidio of Monterey.
An olive branch of green emblazons the bend of the shield. The branch is symbolic of the Institute's motto, Language Power for Peace. The crest of the shield is a gold torch, the traditional emblem of learning and knowledge.
HISTORY OF THE PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY
The military has played a role in the history of the Monterey Peninsula since 1770 when a small expedition led by captain Gaspar de Portola, officially took possession for Spain of what is now central California. In compliance with his orders "to erect a fort to occupy and defend the port (of Monterey) from the atrocities of the Russians, who were about to invade", his men immediately began construction of the Presidio.
Portola's actions were spurred by the Spanish fear that other nations - particularly Russia - had designs on her New World empire. Spain moved to occupy that portion of the western American coast which she had previously neglected. The port of Monterey, which had been visited and charted a century and a half before by the Spanish explorer, Sebastian Vizcaino, was ripe for colonization and military fortification.
Monterey became one of five presidios, or forts, built by Spain in what is now the western United States. Others were founded in San Diego, in 1769; San Francisco, in 1776; Santa Barbara, in 1782; and Tubae, Arizona in 1784.
The fortunes of the Presidio at Monterey rose and fell with the times: it has been moved, abandoned and reactivated time and time again. At least three times it has been submerged by the tide of history, only to appear years later with a new face, a new master, and a new mission - first under the Spanish, then the Mexicans, and ultimately the Americans.
American control of the area began in 1846 during the war with Mexico when Commodore John D. Sloat, commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Squadron, landed unopposed a small force in Monterey and claimed the territory and the Presidio for the United States. He left a small garrison of Marines who moved the location of the fort and began improving defenses to better protect the town and the harbor. The presidio was renamed Fort Mervine in honor of Captain William Mervine, who commanded one of the ships in Sloat's squadron.
The original Presidio consisted of a square of adobe buildings located in the vicinity of what is now downtown Monterey. The fort's original mission, the Royal Presidio Chapel, has remained in constant use since it was founded in 1770 by Father Junipero Serra who arrived with Portola's party. The only direct relationship between the original site and the present Presidio was an earthwork at the latter location which was armed with cannons on a hill overlooking Monterey's harbor.
The end of the Mexican War and the discovery of gold in California effectively put an end to any military presence in Monterey. In May 1848 the news of the gold discovery reached Monterey and many companies deserted for the gold fields. In 1865, at the closing months of the Civil War the old fort on the hill was returned to temporary life by the arrival of six officers and 156 enlisted men, but was abandoned in 1866.
In 1902, an Infantry Regiment arrived at Monterey whose mission was to construct a post to house an infantry regiment and a squadron of cavalry. Troops moved into the new wooden barracks, officially named Ord Barracks, in June 1903. However, in order to perpetuate the name of the old Spanish military installation that Portola had established 134 years earlier, the War Department redesignated the post as the Presidio of Monterey.
A school of musketry was located at the Presidio from 1904 to 1911, and a school for cooks and bakers from 1914 to 1917. In 1917, the Army purchased an additional 15,809 acres across the bay as a maneuver area. This new acquisition eventually was designated as Camp Ord in 1939 and became Fort Ord in 1940.
Between 1919 and 1940, the Presidio housed principally cavalry and field artillery units. However, the outbreak of World War II ended the days of horse cavalry, and troops left Monterey. In June 1946, the school was designated as the Army Language School and later renamed the Defense Language Institute in 1963.
HISTORY OF THE DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
In November 1941, the Army established a secret school on the Presidio of San Francisco to teach the Japanese language to American soldiers of Japanese descent (Nisei). West Coast hostility toward the Nisei during this period forced the Military Intelligence Service Language School to move inland to Minnesota in 1942.
In 1946 the school moved to the Presidio of Monterey. Renamed the Army Language School (ALS) during the Cold War, it expanded to more than 30 languages and recruited worldwide for teachers.
The services ran separate language programs until 1963, when the Defense Department consolidated them under a new Washington, DC headquarters, the Defense Language Institute (DLI). It had an East Coast Branch and a West Coast Branch, formerly ALS.
In the mid-1970s DoD consolidated DLI headquarters and all resident foreign language training for the services at the West Coast Branch, renamed the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
DLIFLC gained academic accreditation in 1979. The Institute expanded in the 1980s. As the Institute increased instructor-to-student ratios, implemented team teaching and acquired information-age technology, average student proficiency steadily increased.
Operation Desert Storm and the end of the Cold War changed the language mix, but underscored DoD's continuing need for skilled military linguists.
FACULTY AND STAFF
Most civilian instructors coming to DLIFLC are native speakers of the languages they teach. Many are multilingual. They include prominent educators, musicians, and artists. Many hold advanced degrees.
DLIFLC implemented a new Faculty Personnel System in January, 1997, a progressive, merit-based personnel approach similar to a college personnel system.
The services send military linguists to DLIFLC as military language instructors. These noncommissioned officers and petty officers, about 10 percent to the faculty, are proficient in foreign languages and know the military language skills our students must achieve to be effective in their duty assignments.
In addition to more than 650 faculty and 300 civilian staff members, nearly 250 service members from all branches of the armed forces support the schools and the Presidio of Monterey.
RESIDENT PROGRAMS
DLIFLC provides modern classrooms, extensive language laboratory facilities and state-of-the-art audio-visual training aids.
Departments within the Institute's seven language schools are organized around the team-teaching concept. Each team contains a number of instructors who share teaching responsibilities for three sections of up to 10 students each.
Students receive intensive listening, reading, speaking and writing practice in functional language as educated native speakers use it, all to enable the military linguist to perform the specific tasks required in a diverse set of jobs. Each program is based on meaningful discourse grounded in real-world contexts rather than on rote memorization. Each language program teaches the history, culture and current events of the countries in which the language is spoken. Students learn to create with the languages they study.
DLIFLC language programs take from 26 to 63 weeks to complete, depending on language difficulty. Classroom instruction lasts at least six hours a day, five days a week, with tailored homework every evening.
The service units conduct physical fitness and other military training. In addition to basic language programs, we offer refresher/maintenance, intermediate, advanced and specialized programs. These provide training to higher language levels, as well as special terminology and combinations of functional skills required for particular duties.
Our programs provide a range of college credits, obtained either via transcripts issued by the DLIFLC Academic Records Division or credit-by-exam based on student Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) performance.
A partnership between DLIFLC and Monterey Peninsula College permits our students to earn associate's degrees in the foreign languages they study. MPC recognized credits earned at the Institute toward meeting major and general education requirements.
DLIFLC is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
NONRESIDENT PROGRAMS
DLIFLC provides foreign language assistance to the Department of Defense, other federal agencies worldwide, educational institutions and to private citizens and organizations.
The school furnishes instructional training materials and services and contingency support to units and service members to use throughout their linguistic careers. Materials include orientation programs, basic language programs, refresher/maintenance courses, professional development programs and special courses. Training services include mobile training teams, teacher training, management assistance visits, course development, Video Tele Training(VTT) and LingNet.
20,000 students annually are supported annual through Command Language Programs, education centers, the Army Correspondence Course Program, VTT, and LingNet BBS - the Linguist Network Computer Bulletin Board System.
LingNet BBS serves the needs of military linguists and government and public agencies. Anyone wanting foreign language information can access LingNet call toll-free, 1-888-DOD-LING. For more information call DSN 878-5685/5114 or commercial (831) 242-5685/5114.
U.S. ARMY 229th MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BATTALION
The mission of the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion is to support the academic mission of the Defense Language Institute, to execute common military training, to conduct TRADOC-directed soldierization, and to provide operational, security, administrative, and logistical support to assigned Army personnel. More than half of all the students at DLI y5g?@are assigned to the 229th. On average, 1400 Army soldiers study a language at any given time during the year. Combined with permanent party cadre, personnel strength exceeds 1600 soldiers in the Battalion. The 229th MI Battalion is one of the largest battalions in TRADOC. The Battalion is organized into an HHC and six student companies. All of the companies are responsible for the billeting, discipline, morale and welfare of their soldiers. Companies A, B, C, and F provide command, control, administration and supply support to assigned students and attached personnel grades E4 and below. They are responsible for the critical and high-profile, TRADOC mandated, soldierization program for Initial Entry Training (IET) soldiers.
Over 60 percent of the soldiers attending DLI are IET soldiers. The units work closely with the language schools to monitor student progress and implement additional language training programs. They provide Headstart, computer assisted studies (CAS), and both pre/post language training as required. Companies D and E provide command, administration, and supply support to assigned and attached career students. They conduct professional development training for junior grade officers. They coordinate with Area Studies to enhance Foreign Area Officer assignments, training and administrative support. HHC provides command, administration and supply support to permanent party personnel. In addition to language training and military skills training, the soldiers of the 229th MIB participate in a wide range of intramural athletics and community service activities.
THE MARINE CORPS DETACHMENT
The mission of the Marine Corps Detachment at the Defense Language Institute is: To conduct and support training in support of the Marine Corps training requirements, in accordance with standard inter service training directives and agreements; To furnish guidance on Marine Corps policy; To provide administrative control and assistance to all Marine Corps personnel at the Defense Language Institute and Naval Postgraduate School; To ensure that all matters pertaining to the Marine Corps and its personnel are considered by the Defense Language Institute.
THE AIR FORCE 311th TRAINING SQUADRON
The mission of the 311th Training Squadron is: To prepare Air Force students at the Defense Language Institute for academic and follow-on military training success; To provide students with an Air Force orientation, motivation, and physical training; To augment DLI language training with remedial and supplemental student assistance as required; To provide a controlled military environment, enhancing student leadership, development, discipline and morale.
THE NAVAL TECHNICAL TRAINING CENTER DETACHMENT
The mission of the Naval Technical Training Center Detachment at the Defense Language Institute is: Act as advocate and supporter for all Navy personnel attending language training at the Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center; To help prepare the new Sailor for duty as a Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive). Our primary customer is the individual Navy person attending language training. Our secondary customers are the many duty stations receiving the Navy's newest linguists. We are an essential member of the team preparing the new Navy linguist. We must strive to produce a learning environment and comfortable home where our customer will thrive. Our customer must leave our charge confident in his or her abilities as a Sailor, a linguist, and a developing leader. Our customer's success is the best measure of our success. Our customer should leave Monterey feeling good about his or her experience; personally, academically, and militarily. If so, we should understand why; if not, we should understand why not.
LOCATION
The Defense Language Institute is located on the Presidio of Monterey (POM), about eight miles from the Ord Military Community (OMC), where the majority of students and permanent party assigned to the Institute live in military housing on a portion of what used to be Fort Ord. Also located on the OMC are the commissary, post exchange, main chapel, the Youth Services Center, Army Community Service, AAFES gas station, the Thrift Shop, the library, a Child Development Center, a grammar school and a middle school.
Telephone, DLI, POM, Commercial: (831) 242-5000
Directory Assistance: DSN: 878-5119. This is a Voice Mail Menu.
DLI,POM: DSN: 878-5000
The United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is the Major Command at the Presidio and the Presidio of Monterey Annex. Approximately 1800 military housing units are availabel for students at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Defense Language Institute and members of the Coast Guard in Monterey. The Housing Office is managed by the Navy.
DLI FLC Presidio-Monterey: Installation
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Name : Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Presidio of Monterey
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POC : Valerie Woods
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State : CA
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Zip : 93944-5006
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Phone : (831) 242-7661
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