Bases for CTTs.

[Okie Cowgirl]

My daughter is a Depper who will be leaving for boot camp this fall.  She scored high enough on the DLAB to get the highest categories in the language field, so she will be heading off to language school after Boot Camp.

Does anybody know which bases each different language is assigned to?  She suspects that she will be learning Chinese and Arabic. 

Thanks, Mari's Mom

[Taylor's Girl]

CTT or CTI? CTIs learn languages, CTTs do not.

 

If she is a CTI, the Asian languages go to Hawaii (Oahu), the Middle Eastern languages go to Fort Gordon, Georgia, Spanish goes to Texas somewhere, and I believe the rest of the languages go somewhere in Maryland. As for language choice, it depends on what they need when she gets to boot camp, but she can talk to someone once she gets to her school for language training and ask for it to be changed. Whether or not that happens depends on if someone drops out of a class that hasn't started yet for a language she wants before her own class is scheduled to start.

 

Again, if she is CTI, she will be at her first duty station for a long time. Most likely a year or a year and half, depending on the language. Information about where people in her language go is readily available at the school, and she will be able to tell you more about that as soon as she gets there.

 

edit: As an aside, the DLAB score for the Navy doesn't matter as long as it's above 100. They will put you wherever regardless of what you scored. Once you get to the school, they don't really care what you got. It's just a guideline for them to see if it's worth taking a risk on you to send you to the school. It costs them a lot of money to send sailors there. She could just as easily be put into Spanish as she could into Arabic.

[Craig]

Here is a list of the majority conus stations that the CT' s go to.  It's posted in the Cryptologic Section:

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/ctratemoms/forum/topics/some-of-th...

 

Also,

You should join the CTI group.  Dee knows her stuff on CTI's...

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/cti 

[Okie Cowgirl]

Sorry, CTI.  She will be learning languages.

[Okie Cowgirl]

Thank you so much guys for the info....... the funny thing is that I grew up in Ga.  My mom was a civilian employee at Fort Gordon for 30 years.  All of my family is there.  I didn't realize they had Navy folks there- I thought it was only Army. 

Her preference is Chinese or Arabic, which apparently is good, since that is likely what the Navy needs, but I can't say as she would be disappointed with any of the languages.  She loves to learn new languages.  She is already fairly fluent in French.  I don't suppose there is much need for that, though. 

I will definitely be joining the groups for CTIs.  

I am loving this web support!

[Taylor's Girl]

Oh no, she definitely won't be getting French her first time through. She should ask to DLPT for it when she gets to Monterey, though, before she starts to forget it. If she does that, she will can get paid for it if she scores high enough. As for languages, there are various middle eastern languages and dialects, Spanish, Russian, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese that she could get into.

[Okie Cowgirl]

What is DLPT and how do you make it happen?

[Taylor's Girl]

DLPT is the test you take to see your fluency in the language. It tests on reading and listening ability, and then there is a separate test that they do for speaking ability. She can ask her LPO (Leading Petty Officer) about it when she gets to Monterey, or the CTI Chief that she will talk to at boot camp when she picks her language.

[Craig]

Mari - If your kid is smart, she would pay the $70 and take the CLEP test to show her skills in French.  This works two ways for her.  1st it proves that she is able to learn a foreign language, which means alot at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language School (DLIFLS).  Secondly, it gets her the college credits for knowing the language.  3 college credits for a 90 minute test is great!  It sure beats being in a class room for 1 semester....

 

CLEP for French:

http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/french_language_...

 

All the CLEP test:

http://clep.collegeboard.org/students?q=node/5

 

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language School (DLIFLS):

http://www.dliflc.edu/index.html

[Taylor's Girl]

The school doesn't really care all that much if you've taken a foreign language before, unless it was a foreign language at DLI. Learning a language in college or high school is nothing like learning a language at DLI. I've never seen any preferential treatment for someone because they knew French, German, or Spanish from pre-Navy life. I've seen it happen all the time, people who are fluent in one of those three languages drop out just as often as people who have never picked up a language at all. DLI is nothing like college or high school. You're expected to become fluent in an "easy" language like French in 6 months here. You get 4 years to do that in high school/college. I've seen a guy who took 2 years of Japanese fail out of Korean. Grammatically, the languages are very similar. He just wasn't able to retain the vocab at the speed it was being given to him.

 

I'd really recommend saving the money and just waiting to take the DLPT, which will get her paid and get her college credits.