If you score 100+ on the DLAB, you are qualified for placement in ANY language. You ARE qualified for placement in any of the "lesser" languages (including Spanish and others). ![]() So, if you score 95-99 on the DLAB, you are NOT qualified to be placed in Cat IV languages (again, Korean, Chinese or Arabic ONLY). But you're right, that's no guarantee, since there are several other non-Cat IV languages, like Russian, Japanese, French and Hebrew (read: fast food)Ĭlick to expand.Sure, it matters. If sneaking out of deployments is a major factor in choosing your AFSC you should consider not joining at all, when the time comes for deployments therea are ways out of it, and there are all too many people willing to take that option (read: any at all) if you aren't ready to live a military life, I'm sure you can find a job more suitable to the lifestyle you want to live. ![]() As an Airborne Korean linguist you will be one of the least deployed most overpopulated variety of linguists, unless you volunteer for a few of the (what some might call "more fun") positions out there.Īs a spanish chairborne linguist (they do exist, though uncommon, and prior knowledge of spanish has little to no effect on getting the slot) you will deploy just as often if not more than Korean airbornes, as a spanish airborne linguist, well good luck finding reliable info on them, there is a guy in my shop that is a spanish airborne but he has a speach impedement and I can't understand a goddamn word he says.Ī low DLAB score will not guarantee you a Spanish spot, when I was at DLI there was a person with a 126 on the DLAB in Spanish and a person with a waivered score (don't remember the exact number) The AF just fills the holes it has with whoever is available, remember a 100 is sufficient for ANY cat IV language, and that being the minimum requirement I don't think they really look at the scores too much after the recruiter's office. ![]() As a chairborne (read: not airborne) Korean Linguist you will spend a lot of your career bouncing b/t the states and Korea, you can volunteer to be in Korea for longer than a year but you will go for at least a year and accompanied tours are few and far between right now.
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