March 24, 2021 eMentor Spotlight: Capt. Brady Gough In 2009, I began studying at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona. I wasn’t just a student but also a cadet in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.
March 23, 2021 LEAP Scholars Assist DPAA in Recovery of Remains During conflicts, not all of our service members make it home. In Vietnam, 1,245 U.S. service members are still missing. Vietnamese LEAP scholars Maj. Son Nguyen, Maj. Vu Le, and Staff Sgt. Oanh Von Behr are currently providing language support to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Vietnam to
March 17, 2021 LEAP Spotlight: Capt. Fiona Akoth “My story starts in a rural town in western Kenya, which is on the eastern side of Africa. I grew up in Kisumu City, right off the coast of Lake Victoria, and when I was 13, we moved to the United States. I went to middle and high school in Texas, and it was at that time that I learned about the
March 16, 2021 AFCLC’s Language Enabled Airman Program: A strategy for improving pilot retention In 2016, retired Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein publicly called the United States Air Force’s pilot shortage a crisis. At the time, the Air Force was reportedly short 1,500 pilots. According to reports, the Air Force still needs an estimated 2,100 pilots – and many say that number
March 2, 2021 LEAP Spotlight: SSgt Giancarlo Cintron “I am Staff Sergeant Giancarlo Cintron, and I am an Aircraft Hydraulics Systems Regional Training Center Instructor at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
Feb. 22, 2021 Enrollment Window Open for Introduction to Culture – 9-15 March In response to the Department of Defense and Air Force guidance to provide cultural education and awareness to the enlisted corps, the Community College of the Air Force and the Air Force Culture and Language Center offers a Distance Learning Course, Introduction to Culture, providing the principles
Feb. 22, 2021 Faculty Profile with Dr. Elizabeth Peifer Growing up in Selma, Alabama, Elizabeth Peifer’s earliest views of the world included congenial Southern hospitality mixed with the brutal realities of racial injustice. Living in the seat of the nation’s civil rights movement, she witnessed firsthand cultural exchanges that shaped her career.
Feb. 17, 2021 LEAP Spotlight: Capt Richard Scherl Capt. Richard Scherl is an 11M (Mobility Pilot) who has been a Spanish Language Enabled Airman Program scholar since 2017.
Feb. 3, 2021 LEAP Spotlight: MSgt Svetlana Alviar Watch as Air Force Research Laboratory MSgt Svetlana Alviar shares her LEAP experiences.
Feb. 2, 2021 LEAP Spotlight: Capt Christine Martinez “Currently, I am so lucky to be a Spanish and Portuguese instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. We talk to our cadets often about the Language Enabled Airman Program and the opportunities it provides.
