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Language Enabled Airmen Program

Do Air Task Force Leaders Need a Language and Culture Expert?

Aug. 20, 2024 | By David Roza
As the Air Force prepares the first six editions of its Air Task Force deployment concept, the head of the Air Force Culture and Language Center is pitching an idea that he believes will help ATFs with a key element of projecting airpower overseas: a ...

Surging Demand Has Airmen Interpreters Feeling the Pinch

Aug. 12, 2024 | By David Roza
Language Enabled Airmen play a key role building partnerships abroad, but there are too few to meet the surge for high-demand languages such as Japanese and Ukrainian.

Outstanding Airmen of the Year: Senior Master Sgt. Sedrick Evans 

Sept. 8, 2023 | By Patrick Reardon
The Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2023 will be formally recognized at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference from Sept. 11-13 in National Harbor, Md. Air & Space Forces Magazine is highlighting one each weekday from now until the conference begins. Today, we ...

Russian-Speaking Airmen Translate Rare Account of Ukraine War Through Invader’s Eyes

May 30, 2023 | By David Roza
Five Russian-speaking Air Force LEAP scholars translated a Russian paratrooper's revealing story of life inside the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

AFSOC Teaches Cultural and Air Ops Skills in New Course for Multi-Capable Airmen

March 7, 2023 | By David Roza
A new course at Hurlburt Field, Fla. will train multi-capable, multi-cultural Airmen to better operate with foreign partners overseas. The first edition of the course is focused on eight Thai-speaking Airmen.

Language Scholars Program Helps Airmen Understand Adversaries and Partners

Oct. 8, 2021 | By Abraham Mahshie
First came the eight online courses with native Arabic speakers. Then the three in-country immersion programs, each three weeks long. But the street hockey game with teenagers in Oman, followed by a beach cookout, were what helped Air Force Maj. Austin Pickrell realize the cultural ...

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