![]() ![]() Soviet pilots called the Mi-24 the "flying tank" (Russian: летающий танк, romanized: letayushchiy tank), a term used historically with the famous World War II Soviet Il-2 Shturmovik armored ground attack aircraft. In NATO circles, the export versions, Mi-25 and Mi-35, are denoted with a letter suffix as "Hind D" and "Hind E". The helicopter is currently in use by 58 countries. It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and was introduced by the Soviet Air Force in 1972. The Mil Mi-24 ( Russian: Миль Ми-24 NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers. Hope he enjoyed Monterey, even with the el Nino (had a big one my year too).58 other users (see Operators section below) The job has changed a lot since I was in (hence the splitting of the MOS into two separate ones), so I can't tell you exactly what or where he'd go, but it's a great job if you have to be in the army.Įdit: Oops, just noticed that this was 2015, not 2016, so definitely not going to be of help now. Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Dari, etc., likely mean someplace hot, dry, and sandy that either ends in '-stan' or '-aq'. ![]() Where obviously depends on your language. After that, depending on your scores, you'll probably deploy overseas. Plus, now they treat DLI as initial training (sort of an extension of basic), so you are potentially under very strict restrictions on your personal freedom for up to 18 months (some languages extend to learn a dialect) and don't even have your MOS yet, since your actual MOS training comes later.Īs far as where you go after that, the first stop is Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX. Consider that the expectation is that you walk in knowing nothing about a language and within 4-12 months (depending on the language) you are a functional linguist in it. Do it again, and you were out, 'reassigned according to the needs of the Army'. When I was there if you ever fell below 75% on anything, you were 'recycled' - sent back to start over. I know this is probably too late to do any good, but first, yes, DLI is a very tough school - 40% dropout rate for the harder languages. I'm a new member here, so I'm just seeing this thread, but that was my MOS (except it was called 98G back then, and included combat electronic warfare as well as crypto-linguist). Deployments are mostly stateside, but again, vary on language. Sorry I am rambling, but hope this somewhat answers your question. It's a very important mission and they spend long hours processing a massive amount of intel. They work with a lot of other government agencies and work with very sensitive information, meaning they won't be able to talk about a lot of what they do. Also the time spent at DLI is contingent upon the student passing the language course and being proficient in said language skills.īeing a crypto linguist can be very challenging/demanding/stressful. The courses at DLI can vary from several months to a year and a half (haven't heard of many longer than that). (deployments can be rare depending on the mission/language)ĭLI is also dependent on the language assigned. Location is dependent on which language your son is assigned. Albeit Air Force, but it seems that the Air Force and Army tend to work in similar locations (e.g.
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