PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held its 73rd Anniversary Ball on Nov. 1st, with more than 350 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends in attendance. The event, sponsored in part by the DLI Alumni Association and Foundation, was held at the Naval Postgraduate School's historic Herrmann Hall, in Monterey. The guest speaker for the event was Ambassador Daniel Smith, Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Research from the Department of State.

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - For the first time in more than a decade, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the local community for its annual Language Day celebration.

Held May 11, on the open grounds of historic Soldier Field and surrounding classrooms, Language Day was a colorful celebration of foreign languages and cultural education highlighting the 26 different languages taught to military personnel at the Presidio of Monterey.

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PHOTO by Hiro Chang, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The sun came out just in time to kickoff the Commandant's run here on the Presidio, Feb. 18. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Commandant Col. David Chapman led hundreds of service members on the run that covered the length of the Presidio, up and down hills and curves, before eventually finishing at the Presidio's Soldier Field.

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center celebrated the upcoming Memorial Day with a ceremony on Presidio’s Soldier Field May 21. The ceremony included a solemn invocation by the Chaplain, a 21-gun salute rendered to fallen service members, firing of the ceremonial cannon, performances by the DLIFLC Joint Service Student Choir, and unveiling of the Dedication Plaque in honor of DLIFLC graduates killed in action during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Special honors were given to Spc. Christopher A. Landis, whose name was added to the Dedication Plaque this year. Landis died February 2014 in Afghanistan from wounds caused by a rocket-propelled grenade while conducting operations in the Kapisa province. Landis enlisted as a cryptologic linguist in the Army in March 2011 and was a DLIFLC Arabic language graduate. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C. when he lost his life in service to his country.

Following the ceremony, the Presidio Garrison hosted a special reception event for Gold Star Families who were in attendance.

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Department of Defense’s premier training institution for culturally based foreign language welcomed its newest commandant, as Col. David K. Chapman assumed command of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center during a ceremony on Presidio's Soldier Field May 22. Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, deputy commanding general for Leader Development and Education at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., officiated the ceremony. Chapman is a DLIFLC graduate with certificates in Russian, Serbian/Croatian and Greek languages, who also served as a second lieutenant 25 years ago at the former Fort Ord with the then-7th Infantry Division. www.army.mil/article/126684/New_leader_takes_reins_of_DLI...

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- More than 60 Soldiers from Company F, 229th Military Intelligence Battalion, participated in military operations training with foreign language integration at an Army training site located on the former Fort Ord July 19. The Soldiers' primary objective at the Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) training site was to locate and recover service members from a simulated helicopter crash while traversing an approximately 1.5-mile course that had the squads gathering intelligence from locals in a variety of foreign languages, responding to direct and indirect fire, encountering improvised explosive devices and clearing buildings.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held its 73rd Anniversary Ball on Nov. 1st, with more than 350 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends in attendance. The event, sponsored in part by the DLI Alumni Association and Foundation, was held at the Naval Postgraduate School's historic Herrmann Hall, in Monterey. The guest speaker for the event was Ambassador Daniel Smith, Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Research from the Department of State.

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PHOTO by Lopez Photography

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held its 73rd Anniversary Ball on Nov. 1st, with more than 350 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends in attendance. The event, sponsored in part by the DLI Alumni Association and Foundation, was held at the Naval Postgraduate School's historic Herrmann Hall, in Monterey. The guest speaker for the event was Ambassador Daniel Smith, Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Research from the Department of State.

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PHOTO by Lopez Photography

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held its 73rd Anniversary Ball on Nov. 1st, with more than 350 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends in attendance. The event, sponsored in part by the DLI Alumni Association and Foundation, was held at the Naval Postgraduate School's historic Herrmann Hall, in Monterey. The guest speaker for the event was Ambassador Daniel Smith, Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Research from the Department of State.

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PHOTO by Lopez Photography

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - For the first time in more than a decade, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the local community for its annual Language Day celebration.

Held May 11, on the open grounds of historic Soldier Field and surrounding classrooms, Language Day was a colorful celebration of foreign languages and cultural education highlighting the 26 different languages taught to military personnel at the Presidio of Monterey.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held its 73rd Anniversary Ball on Nov. 1st, with more than 350 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends in attendance. The event, sponsored in part by the DLI Alumni Association and Foundation, was held at the Naval Postgraduate School's historic Herrmann Hall, in Monterey. The guest speaker for the event was Ambassador Daniel Smith, Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Research from the Department of State.

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PHOTO by Lopez Photography

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- More than 60 Soldiers from Company F, 229th Military Intelligence Battalion, participated in military operations training with foreign language integration at an Army training site located on the former Fort Ord July 19. The Soldiers' primary objective at the Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) training site was to locate and recover service members from a simulated helicopter crash while traversing an approximately 1.5-mile course that had the squads gathering intelligence from locals in a variety of foreign languages, responding to direct and indirect fire, encountering improvised explosive devices and clearing buildings.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held its 73rd Anniversary Ball on Nov. 1st, with more than 350 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends in attendance. The event, sponsored in part by the DLI Alumni Association and Foundation, was held at the Naval Postgraduate School's historic Herrmann Hall, in Monterey. The guest speaker for the event was Ambassador Daniel Smith, Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Research from the Department of State.

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PHOTO by Lopez Photography

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - For the first time in more than a decade, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the local community for its annual Language Day celebration.

Held May 11, on the open grounds of historic Soldier Field and surrounding classrooms, Language Day was a colorful celebration of foreign languages and cultural education highlighting the 26 different languages taught to military personnel at the Presidio of Monterey.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- Lt. Col. Jude C. Shell received command of the Marine Detachment Presidio of Monterey from outgoing commander Lt. Col. Rodrick H. McHaty during a change of command ceremony held at Presidio's Hilltop Field, June 30. Col. Harold B. Eggers, commanding officer Marine Corps Communication Electronics School, was the officiating officer for the ceremony. Shell's most recent previous assignment was International Affairs Program Manager at Headquarters Marine Corps in Arlington, VA.

As one of his last acts as MARDET Monterey commander, McHaty performed a promotion ceremony for MARDET Monterey Ops Chief Gunnery Sgt. Oliver B. Schierer.

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook

PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- More than 60 Soldiers from Company F, 229th Military Intelligence Battalion, participated in military operations training with foreign language integration at an Army training site located on the former Fort Ord July 19. The Soldiers' primary objective at the Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) training site was to locate and recover service members from a simulated helicopter crash while traversing an approximately 1.5-mile course that had the squads gathering intelligence from locals in a variety of foreign languages, responding to direct and indirect fire, encountering improvised explosive devices and clearing buildings.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Department of Defense’s premier training institution for culturally based foreign language welcomed its newest commandant, as Col. David K. Chapman assumed command of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center during a ceremony on Presidio's Soldier Field May 22. Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, deputy commanding general for Leader Development and Education at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., officiated the ceremony. Chapman is a DLIFLC graduate with certificates in Russian, Serbian/Croatian and Greek languages, who also served as a second lieutenant 25 years ago at the former Fort Ord with the then-7th Infantry Division. www.army.mil/article/126684/New_leader_takes_reins_of_DLI...

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 229th Military Intelligence Battalion celebrated the U.S. Army's 239th birthday by hosting the Army Birthday Ball at the Monterey Hyatt Regency June 7. The evening blended Army traditions with celebration and included a cake-cutting event, musical and theatrical performances, fine dining and dancing. The theme for this year's ball was "Lineage, Language, Leadership."

Center for International Security and Cooperation Senior Military Fellow Col. Tracy L. Roou was the evening's guest speaker. Rouu is a Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center graduate of the Russian Basic Course and previously served as Defense Attaché and Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan from 2011-2013.

The U.S. Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and is a profession of standards and discipline, customs and traditions, military expertise and trust.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Department of Defense’s premier training institution for culturally based foreign language welcomed its newest commandant, as Col. David K. Chapman assumed command of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center during a ceremony on Presidio's Soldier Field May 22. Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, deputy commanding general for Leader Development and Education at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., officiated the ceremony. Chapman is a DLIFLC graduate with certificates in Russian, Serbian/Croatian and Greek languages, who also served as a second lieutenant 25 years ago at the former Fort Ord with the then-7th Infantry Division. www.army.mil/article/126684/New_leader_takes_reins_of_DLI...

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.