DLI is the sperg capital of the world

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

I was there in the early 90's for Russian. There were some truly bizarre individuals attending during that time. All us prior service would stay well away and drink our post-PT beers in peace.

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

As prior service and a squad leader, DLI was pretty much awesome for me. After classes and PT, I'd roll down to the Rose and Crown and get pleasantly shitfaced before heading home to attempt to parse the genitive case.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2010 08:12

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

They run screaming to the nearest bar like the rest of us. I was in offpost housing, so I didn't have to deal with the little darlings unless I was in class, or on CQ.

Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Aug 25, 2011

# ¿ Jun 24, 2010 06:02

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

The typical trainee at DLI is smarter than your average 18 year old and knows it. That being said, they have the wisdom of a wood louse and the morals of a crack whore.

I had been an 11B for 6 years, and I had never seen an E2-E4 with less common sense than some of my fellow "students".

Pompous Rhombus posted:

Is there a written proficiency exam for Thai that the DoD (or some other government agency) uses that anyone knows about? I'm a civilian and have taken an OPI over the phone (through a contractor, Language Testing International or something like that), but they don't offer a written exam. Most of my language course focused on reading/writing and I'm crap over the phone in any language, so I'm hoping this isn't a permanent bottleneck for me (I'm hoping to get a job with my language skills as an analyst or something, either with the government or a civilian contractor).

The DLPT (Defense Language Proficiency Test) used to be administered by DLI and most military posts had an education center where it could be given. Note that I have been out of the Army for 15 years so my intel is pretty stale.

Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Aug 25, 2011

# ¿ Jun 24, 2010 19:14

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

When I was there in 92-93 about half my squad were 'Wiccans'.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2010 05:59

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

I was at DLI for language for 97B (I think it's 35L now) Counterintelligence Agent. I had spent my previous enlistment at Benning and Bragg, so my immediate reaction to the insanity of the Presidio was :psyboom:

Fortunately, in the early 90s' it wasn't AS sperg-tacular as it is now (hordes of wanna-be wiccans aside), but all the smart prior service got off post and stayed off post as quickly as possible simply to retain their sanity.

The education you get there is excellent, but most of the initial enlistment types that attend should have been drowned at birth.

We did have a couple of affairs, at least three pregnancies, several suicide attempts (none successful), and the usual 18 through 20-something drama, but strangely enough, nobody in my year long Russian course got popped on a drug test.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you get a chance to go to DLI, do it. You avoid the idiots and keep your cool.

Plus, Monterey is awesome and an easy drive to San Francisco.

Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Aug 25, 2011

# ¿ Jun 26, 2010 07:42

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

We had people recycled to a different language (Spanish) if they were rocks, but nobody in my class got booted from the school. I think we only had two Article 15s the entire year long cycle. One chowderhead that failed to report for CQ duty, and another for underage drinking.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2010 23:55

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

The Russian instructors at F Co were an interesting group. We had a former TASS television news anchor and a guy that looked like he came from Hollywood central casting as an evil KGB agent among others. Seriously, you could have put him in a black leather trenchcoat and sent him after George Smiley he looked so authentic.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2010 17:38

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Casimir Radon posted:

When the news story about the missing Afghanis came on this morning I for a moment thought one of your fine peers murdered or raped somebody.

Nah, most of them aren't competent enough to pull something like that off.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2010 02:16

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

The wash out rate in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian is incredible. Unless you can focus on your studies or be an innate loving language sponge...you will crash and burn. I was lucky cause I already knew one language besides English and I knew how to study.

I love Monterey and Northern California, so I stayed away from Post as much as possible. Did my homework and drank heavily on my off time. It was a pretty wonderful year.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2010 04:35

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

That ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Also go to San Francisco or anyplace else in California and just have a good time. When the language hammer falls, you'll be so glad you did.

Milkhaver1984 posted:

think the key to success here (not going section 8) is taking time for yourself everyday to relax and play your guitar a little, maybe go for a walk, watch furry animals playfully frolicking in the woods, see the natural wildlife play in the woods, too. Try not to lose yourself in your studies, or you'll probably burn out.

Try your best to avoid on-post drama. I joined the Run Team (is that still around?) and hung with other prior service and our families (BBQs and the like) to help keep myself sane. Having Russian pounded into your skull isn't the most pleasant thing on earth, but the feeling of satisfaction on getting a L3/R3+ made up for it.

Good luck and keep us posted!

# ¿ Jul 9, 2010 06:26

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

tengohemroidz posted:

You got a 3+ at DLI? I didn't know they administered the upper level DLPT to first time students.

Looking at my old DLPT scores I got the L3/R3+ after my second semester at college in '97. I had L2+/R3 at completion of DLI in'93.

tl;dr
Humbug isn't as smart as he thinks he is...

Also in response to 'Why is Spanish taught at DLI?' SIgInt guys need to be trained to recognize and transcribe quickly spoken numbers and words...not the sort of thing that even most native speakers learn.

Humbug Scoolbus fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jul 10, 2010

# ¿ Jul 10, 2010 21:57

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

I was just grateful I was HumInt instead of Signal so my number's drill score didn't matter. Suck it SCIF rats!

# ¿ Jul 11, 2010 04:26

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

GetHardHero posted:

If I saw someone wearing a happy cat shirt I would avoid them like they were wearing a shirt made out of plague infested rats.

Why? I find those rat-shirts to be more comfortable than issue underwear.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2010 04:02

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

I was there a long time ago and there wasn't poo poo to do in town at night except drink. It sounds like it hasn't changed much...

Are the brothels still in operation? I was married at the time so I wasn't tempted, but the Air Force (mainly officers) was always getting busted with prostitutes.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2010 12:18

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Tokan posted:

Will do. Already have a list of things I plan to get involved in when I arrive, and planning on taking it easy (nightlife-wise)the first few months just to get settled in to the area. Learned enough at the last command not to lose perspective and take things for granted.

Living off-base should make it easier too.

Living off-post helps immeasurably.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2010 10:52

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

QingLaiXiguaba posted:

Just passed my Chinese DLPT. 2+ 2+ 1+. I still hold I got screwed on the OPI, but I'm done. Next stop, Goodfellow.

Hey, it's not Huachuca!

# ¿ Jul 22, 2010 22:09

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Is the Rose and Crown still around? That was my usual hangout.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2010 15:48

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Yeah I meant Crown and Anchor.

About bias in the Schools. I was in Russian Village and dear god was it weighted to any hot chicks. This was about 20 years ago though.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2010 04:18

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

hammeredspace posted:

I guess maybe you're talking about the number drills which is where they stick you in a dark room and play some ancient cassette of a woman from the country of your choice barfing out numbers at different paces and in different combinations - for example she may say the number 146 as "one-hundred and forty-six" or "one forty-six" or "one four six" or "fourteen six" and if you can't tell that those are all supposed to be one number haha you're a horrible dumbass!

gently caress number drills!

_{^{I was a CI}}

# ¿ Aug 31, 2010 00:41

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

I finished out my service as an Army CI w/Russian after the Soviet collapse and never had to use my language except to hit on hot Ukrainian chicks in France.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2010 00:35

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

bloodpuke posted:

I'm in week 41 (out of 47) in persian farsi. I won't lie, I'm a little worried about passing, even though I got a 1+/2 on the midterm DLPT. We're just all at that "oh gently caress, will it end already!" stage in the course. I'm just a worry-wart, I think. gently caress, I just want to DLPT, pass, and get it over with, I'm tired of this crap.

On another note, I got my orders, and after goodfellow, I'm going to the 504th MI BDE in Fort Hood. Can anyone give any tips for not going insane while stationed at hood?

Be thankful it's not Bliss?

# ¿ Sep 29, 2010 13:59

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

2/2 in Russian was brutal at the Presidio with a 1 year course. 6 months? No way, and that is in a arguably easier language.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2010 21:13

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

POVs are definitely allowed.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2011 18:35

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

What up Madi-goons?

I'm out of the language (and military) biz now, so I have no idea what WI NG units are currently running around.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2011 16:51

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

QingLaiXiguaba posted:

Does the Navy just have no idea what the gently caress they are doing, ever? Every time I see them en masse it's a hodge podge of uniforms, and nobody seems to have control of the situation. Plus, I'm pretty sure they generally outweigh the Air Force, somehow.

Simple answer. No. Unless it's persuading the DoD that they need the next bestest thing so that the USAF doesn't snag part of their budget.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2011 11:40

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

ryan_woody posted:

Two weeks pass, if I recall, you get off at midnight the first day. I can't think of anything specific that is different.

Yeah two weeks. I made a fortune sticking around and pulling CQ for cash.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2011 19:59

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

I was there in the really early 90s, and I never had any trouble with the locals. The area is gorgeous and the MST 55 bus to Gilroy and then switching over to Caltrain will haul your rear end up to San Francisco for the weekend.

MST 55 Schedule and Route.

Caltrain Schedule and Route

# ¿ Jan 17, 2012 07:38

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Geniepolice posted:

I thought the SF kids did their language stuff in house at Bragg.

When I was there (early 90s) they had a bunch of them over in Echo Company.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2012 18:53

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Holy gently caress! When did this happen?

# ¿ Feb 16, 2012 14:57

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Bellum posted:

Army specialist/sham shield in phase 4. You've likely seen us marching around, all 90 of us. We phase up on Tuesday. I start Russian on Thursday.

C or F Co? (I was in F in '92)

# ¿ Mar 18, 2012 19:27

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Prop Wash posted:

I'm betting with good odds that your teaching team lead has, without telling anyone, bought tickets and planned their vacation for those dates. Now they're trying to ram it down everyone else's throats because they know that you all won't say or do anything about it.

They tried this with my Russian class long ago, and got their poo poo ruined by the TraDoc Colonel who was our class leader.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2012 17:54

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

GreenMeat, I wish you'd been around 20 years ago...

# ¿ Jul 31, 2012 16:39

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

GreenMeat posted:

Heh. I WAS around 20 years ago...I was a student at DLI, in fact. Seems like things are a lot worse than they were back then, though.

Really? I was in F Co in 92-93

# ¿ Jul 31, 2012 20:09

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Step d) is amazingly effective and saved my rear end a couple of times. Knowing the culture will help in the long run as well.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2012 18:54

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Duffel Blog is wonderful

# ¿ Aug 13, 2012 19:23

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Bellum posted:

LARP weapons are not allowed at DLI. We had a briefing on that in Bravo during inprocessing.

Jesus wept. :wtc:

is happening in the modern military that stuff like that has to be mentioned during inprocessing?

# ¿ Sep 30, 2012 03:35

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

And he didn't go Rigger? That's supply laundry folders with Jump Pay... ^{_{of course it isn't. Riggers are loving awesome.}}

# ¿ Dec 14, 2012 07:41

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Africa needs linguists.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2013 18:57

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

TheUnhorse posted:

haha holy poo poo sounds like everything about DLI has gotten shittier than ever. I don't know if you were missing out too much though, I still have yet to figure out what an MLI actually does except proctor some tests. oh and try and talk about grammar poorly, i guess

Don't forget the promotion points!

# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 02:23

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