![]() Once class starts you will hate everything beautiful and nice and this place gets taken for granted.ĭo not get married to someone who you meet there. While you are on casuals make sure you get a feel for Monterey while you can (phase willing). Casuals are menial jobs around the post/base that give you something to do to earn your bi monthly pay check. You get to do casuals, the bane of existence for anyone who has not been in class yet and the sweet relief for those of you who have had them. If I have to wait before class starts.what happens? The weather is pretty moderate year round. You also will have additional military duties on top of it.īeautiful. He/She will take care of the military training of your training. You are also taught by native speakers and have one MLI (Military Language Instructor) assigned to your team. Plan on studying every night and taking regular tests and quizzes. The phase program changes quite a bit.Ĭlass is difficult and intense. You will find out more once you get to tech school. PHASE PROGRAM unfortunately that link is out of date. I have heard alot about the phase system?Īfter coming out of BMT, the Air Force just doesn't go."Hey you are now free! Have fun!". Also you can be seperated (removed from the service). Still these are just options, do your best so Get a less desirable job) and Lack Of Ability (less worse, can you get you a decent job). There are two types of washouts.Lack of Effort (bad, will You will be reclassed as a different job depending on your preformance at the DLI. Some might say because of pride and confidence. Well alot of the people who score well on DLAB fail out of the DLI. Require studying and studying and studying some more.ĭLI is hard to fail out of, eh? Well I scored a 4523452340952340928570 on my DLAB.but what happens if I washout? It is a challenging school with a high washout rate. It is located in the beautiful Monterey California. Which is the Defense Language Institute Foriegn You will actually be atteneding the DLIFLC. The DLI is the Defense Language Institute. Located at the Medina Annex (part of Lackland AFB). Basically to weed out those who are not fit for aircrew duty. That can vary.Įnlisted Aircrew Undergraduate Course. You are looking at about 2-3 years worth of training. Be happy that you can at least learn a language. Realize that you are doing an awesome job that isĪbove and beyond most others. You can't, you may have to oppurtunity later on to train into it. Any language you get will be a good and have many oppurtunities attached to it.īut I really want language x! How can I get it? The first Air Force core value is Service above Self. Said on this forum that what language you get isĨ0% What the Air Force needs 19% You DLAB score and 1% What you want. Which is ironically the lowest allowable (without waiver) for linguist duty. Hardest catergory requires a DLAB score of 100. Languages come in 4 different catergories based on difficulty. Well thats for the Air Force to decide and for you to find out. Its very intense and in your face andīe warned. It is also one of the wierdest tests you will ever take. This is what the DoD uses to test if they think you have the ability to learn aįoriegn language. The DLAB is the Defense Language Aptitude Battery. So you may want to pressure him/her into getting those for you. BUT you will need a recruiter who is willing to 1A8 is a critically manned field so waivers are being readily accepted. Vision corrected to 20/20 and have reach of 72 inches. ![]() You must score a 72 on your ASVAB in the general area. That sounds intense! Why isn't everyone one of those? Here is the dumbed-down versionīut basically you are trained in a foriegn language and you will be decyphering those languages and reporting back the threat and I could on and try to explain it but lets let those who are better explain this for me. Well I can try but alot of it is classified. What exactly is a 1A8, Airborne Cryptologic Linguist? We reserve the right to make fun of you, alot.Īlso please take note this MAY or MAY NOT be up to date with the current regs when you are reading this. You don't read this and ask a question that is in this. Recruiter and the wealth of information found on these boards and to combine them all together in big happy FAQ. The reason for creating this is the lack of information provided to me from a Well as give general information regarding the field. The following should be mandatory reading for all 1A8X1 DEP'rs before you ever ask a question. ![]()
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