“The Air National Guard and will soon embark on their own micro-experiment to re-language linguists,” said Garza-Avlonitis. The training paved the way for future instruction of its kind across the Air Force. They’ll get to stay for one more assignment and then they’ll be prone to moving.” “The positive of this is didn’t necessarily want to leave right away they’ve been here a long time already as linguists and their quality of life and family is already here,” said Garza-Avlonitis.
Upon graduation, the students will stay at JBSA-Lackland where they will converge their language capabilities to generate information warfare outcomes for combatant commanders and air components. The intelligence we provide helps decision makers and world shakers in Washington make important decisions.” “When you’re doing this mission, what you’re doing is safeguarding the troops abroad and people at home. “I was a prior Urdu Linguist, speaking the language of Pakistan, and I’m excited to put my skills to use for the long-standing mission translating Russian,” said Staff Sgt. Russian speaking contractors taught the ten-month course at JBSA-Lackland, to students who had different language linguist backgrounds, who were already stationed at the base. “What has been accomplished here has truly paved the way for future iterations of language training across the Air Force.” “Headquarters Air Force approved the training outside the standard DLI process resulting in approximately 1.6 million dollars in cost savings in a time of tightening budgets,” said Eileen Garza-Avlonitis, 543rd Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance deputy group commander. ”īefore this class, students would have to attend DLI in Monterey, California for training. With support of the group, wing and the, we found money and crafted a first-of-its-kind plan to quickly train linguists outside of the. “We did what Airmen do, and that’s innovate. Jessica Adkins, 93rd Intelligence Squadron commander. “As the priorities of our country shifted, we found ourselves with a gap in critical languages, including Russian,” said Lt. JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO- LACKLAND, Texas - Twelve Airmen from the 543rd Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group graduated from a benchmark Russian linguist language class here, Friday, rapidly filling deficiencies while minimizing costs.
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