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.
Jan. 26, 2021 CMSgt Angel Milan: “LEAP is the weapons school for languages.” CMSgt Angel Milan will soon celebrate 25 years of service in the U.S. Air Force. With more than eight years in the Air Force Culture and Language Center’s Language Enabled Airman Program, he couldn’t imagine doing anything else. He said he has the perfect job.
Jan. 25, 2021 AFCLC Meets NATO AEW&C Force in International Aircrew Cultural Training Recently, the Air Force Culture and Language Center faculty worked with the NATO AWACS unit at Geilenkirchen on a course to enhance interoperability across a crew force of 17 nations, which the team calls International Aircrew Cultural Training or INTERACT.
Jan. 19, 2021 LEAP Spotlight: Lt Col Daniel Schoeni From August 2017 to August 2019, Spanish LEAP scholar and JAG officer Lt Col Daniel Schoeni was the Chief of Security Cooperation at 12 AF (AFSOUTH)/JA, and participated in 17 TDYs held in Latin America.
Jan. 15, 2021 AFCLC Faculty Profile: Dr. Patricia Fogarty Dr. Patricia Fogarty, the Air Force Culture and Language Center’s assistant professor of cross-cultural relations, is a mystery enthusiast. An avid reader and a fan of any good detective television series, it only makes sense that this anthropologist is fascinated by how and why people do what they
Jan. 11, 2021 LEAP Scholars Bridge Interpretation Gap in JIATF-S In November 2018, the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S) International Affairs Division Chief, U.S. Navy Cmdr. John Picco, found his team in dire need of two qualified translators/interpreters.
