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I bought this wood carving for my son when holidaying in Jamaica several years ago from a local at a market stall.
Six foreign-born Soldiers and three military spouses were sworn in at a naturalization ceremony at Camp Casey’s Army Community Service April 9. Walter L. Haith, field office director with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Seoul led them in the oath of allegiance. Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Vandal, Commanding General, 2nd Infantry Division was the keynote speaker for the ceremony then he and Command Sgt. Maj. Andrew J. Spano, the division’s senior enlisted advisor congratulated the new citizens and presented them their naturalization certificate.
08/07/2021. London, United Kingdom. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab holds a call with Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha González Laya in his office at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
A foreign soda of some sort; had to check the nutritional info just to find out the flavoring and I'm still not positive on what's in it.
Although 16-year-old Lee So-hee attends high school in a city that’s home to a big U.S. Army base, she’d felt fearful of meeting foreigners, let alone trying to speak to them in English.
But that changed in a matter of hours after Lee and 31 other 10-graders from the Dongducheon Foreign Language High School took part in a two-day “English Camp” hosted by the U.S. Army in Dongducheon July 24 and 25.
The students visited Camp Casey in Dongducheon and Camp Red Cloud in Uijeongbu for an up-close glimpse at life inside the installation gates, combined with a chance to use English.
“Before I went here I was afraid of meeting foreigners and speaking [with] foreigners,” said Lee. “However, after this program, I could meet foreigner comfortable and my thinking was changes. The foreigners was very kind.”
The U.S. Army in Area I hosts the English Camp visits periodically under the U.S. Forces Korea’s Good Neighbor Program, which aims to foster good relations between the U.S. military and the South Korean public.
At Casey they toured the post fire station, visited the 6th Battalion, 37th Field Artillery, and were shown around the Carey Physical Fitness Center. At Camp Red Cloud they toured the 2nd Infantry Division Museum.
Lunch both days was at Camp Casey, first at the Gateway Club, next day at the golf club.
There was also an informal discussion time at which the students got to exercise their conversational English skills by talking with U.S. Soldiers at the Camp Casey Community Activity Center.
“By learning English,” Lee said, “I can understand the other cultures and I can speak with various cultures’ people. And the English, studying English was very interest for me.”
Student Hwang Ji-eun had a similar reaction.
“Before, I was so nervous to talk with foreigners, but with this experience I can more fluent. I can talk with foreigners more fluently so it was useful for me.
“Actually, it was the first time to visit the Army,” said Hwang. “So, first I was so nervous. But the system is so good so I want to go here next time.”
Besides the chance to improve English skills the program affords the students a look at a culture different from their own, said Shin Jae-ouck, one of two teachers who accompanied the students.
“So it’s a wonderful chance to provide my students to motive their foreign language studying,” said Shin.
The program finished with a dinner and awards ceremony at the Warrior’s Club on Camp Casey.
There, students took their turn at the microphone giving a 30-second speech in English summing up their experience during the two days.
Each thereafter received a certificate of graduation, handed them by Lt. Col. Edward D. Eldridge, Commander, U.S. Army Garrison Casey, and their principal, Park Choon-woo.
Instead of only seeing Americans at a distance, such visits give the students a chance to meet and talk with them face-to-face, said Eldridge.
“It allows them to see, not imagine, what the Soldiers are doing, but come and actually participate with them on day-to-day activities,” Eldridge said.
“They get to see, ‘Hey, that’s the guy that we don’t ever get to interact with and that’s the way they really are. They are real people too.’ So it allows everybody to see each other as real people, for what they are,” he said.
“So,” said Eldridge, “not only is it helping the local community but it helps us to better understand the students as well.”
By Franklin Fisher
Former Foreign Office Senior Minister of State, Baroness Warsi meeting Afghan Foreign Minister Rassoul in Kabul, 5 March 2013.
In the early hours of Saturday 14th March 2015, a number of the balloons taking part in the 2015 Canberra Balloon Festival drifted slowly past the R. G. Casey building that hosts the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
The Right Honourable, The Lord Casey (29 August 1890 – 17 June 1976) was one of the most decorated Australians of the 1940's to 1970's.
He stepped into the limelight as the Govenor of Bengal in the early 1940s. Bengal was partitioned into India and Pakistan in 1946, at which time Casey returned to Australia. He was elected to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1946, and served in several governments until 1960. In 1965, he was appointed as the Governor General, and served in this role until 1969. Amongst his many honours and awards, he was Australian of the Year in 1969, Baron of Berwick (in Victoria), and a Life Peer of the British House of Lords.
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Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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26/05/2021. Tel Aviv, Israel. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab meets Gabriel Ashkenazi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Israel for a bilateral meeting at this office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tel Aviv, Israel. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s most colorful day of the year came May 8 as the Presidio opened its doors and welcomed a crowd estimated at more than 5,000 during its 31st hosting of Language Day. Attendees were treated to a diversity of songs, skits, dances, classroom demonstrations as well as food and wares that represented the cultures of 23 languages studied here at the military’s preeminent language training facility. Also in attendance were 54 combat veterans of the Vietnam War, honored guests during a “Welcome Home” ceremony led by Col. Paul Fellinger, Presidio of Monterey garrison commander, and Dan Presser, Military and Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee member, in commemoration of the war’s 50th anniversary.
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Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein deliver opening remarks at the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Dialogue, at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, D.C., on August 19, 2020. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba participates in the Opening Session of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London, United Kingdom on June 21, 2023. [State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy/Public Domain]
Jonathan Scheele, Head of European Commission Representation in the UK meeting students at the Mock Council of the European Union, 17 November 2011.
House Foreign Affairs Committee - Hearing
10:00 am, 07/25/2012
Full committee hearing on "Investigating the Chinese Threat, Part Two: Human Rights Abuses, Torture and Disappearances."
Witness(es): Jared Genser, founder of Freedom Now; Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur democracy leader; Hai Li, Falun Gong practitioner; and Bhuchung Tsering, vice president of the International Campaign for Tibet, testify
Location: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Photos by Lingjing Bao, July 25th, 2012, Talk Radio News
20/06/2023. London, United Kingdom. The Foreign Secretary, James cleverly hosts a Bilateral meeting and joint press conference with United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken at 1 Carlton Gardens, St. Picture by Rory Arnold / No 10 Downing Street
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu welcome the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Poposki
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Andrés Navarro García, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of Dominican Republic
Luis Almagro, OAS Secretary General
Date: June 11, 2016
Place: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
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A small herd of deer run across an open field on Camp Mackall during the 16th Annual Randy Oler Operation Toy Drop, Dec. 11, 2013. The number of toys for the 16th Annual Randy Oler Operation Toy Drop continues to grow as special operations forces donate throughout this week at Luzon Drop Zone, Camp Mackall, N.C. Jumping from CASA 212s and a German C-160, paratroopers earned foreign jump wings from one of nine countries’ jumpmasters participating in this year’s Toy Drop after donating a new, unwrapped toy and successfully completing a jump. Germany, Canada, Italy, Poland, Chile, Sweden, Latvia, Brazil and Netherlands jumpmasters participated this year. Hosted by the U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), Operation Toy Drop is the largest combined airborne operation in the world. The donated toys will be distributed to children’s homes and social service agencies in the local community.
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07/12/2022. Semera, Ethiopia. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly speaks to mothers and their babies who are receiving healthcare as a part of the Productive Safety Net Programme at a Mobile Health and Nutrition Site in Semera. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s most colorful day of the year came May 8 as the Presidio opened its doors and welcomed a crowd estimated at more than 5,000 during its 31st hosting of Language Day. Attendees were treated to a diversity of songs, skits, dances, classroom demonstrations as well as food and wares that represented the cultures of 23 languages studied here at the military’s preeminent language training facility. Also in attendance were 54 combat veterans of the Vietnam War, honored guests during a “Welcome Home” ceremony led by Col. Paul Fellinger, Presidio of Monterey garrison commander, and Dan Presser, Military and Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee member, in commemoration of the war’s 50th anniversary.
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Former Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt meeting Governor Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts in London, 16 March 2011.
Lol. I have no idea why I called this 'Foreign'. Probably because he DOES looks like in a foreign country with sun,shining bright over him. X)
Beginning in May 1978, the Katanga rebels, supported by Angola, invaded the mineral rich province of Shaba in Zaire. The scale of the massacres and atrocities as well as the kidnapping of many citizens of France pushes to intervene.
May 17, Colonel Philippe Erulin, commander of the 2nd REP (Foreign Parachute Regiment) was ordered to prepare and the second REP joined with the Air Force Base
at Solenzara .
May 18 the mission entrusted by the President of the Republic is to jump on Kolwezi to rescue hundreds of hostages of all nationalities.
May 19, after four hours flight from Kinshasa, the legionnaires are dropped on Kolwezi. The units are re-articulated to the ground and begin to grow. As of May 22, the action continues Legionnaires and very quickly, Colonel Erulin can announce "mission accomplished".
This has saved or secure 2500 Europeans saved. The 2nd REP, cited in the Order of the army, lost a sergeant and four legions in battle were 250 victims of the rebels.
Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors sign the Arms Trade Treaty At United Nations headquarters in New York, June 3, 2013. INSIDER IMAGES/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES)
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- Official U.S. Army Special Operations Command Parachute Demonstration Team, the Black Daggers, dropped in to Presidio's Soldier Field on Nov. 4 during the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's 75th Anniversary Week celebrations. The team carried a special gift on their 6,000 foot jump, delivering a scroll announcing the award of the Joint Meritorious Unit Award to DLIFLC Commandant Col. Phillip J. Deppert. Students from the Presidio's military service units were on hand to witness the spectacle after spending the day participating in a Sports Day competition.
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