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Is it true that if I enrole as a linguistic that they will send me to the war zone?

I am about to enter either the Navy or Airforce and I am currently a translator and would love to be able to continue this profession for my country but I have been told that if I do I will be sent to the war zone. Being a dedicated wife and mom of two, I really don’t want to choose a career that will definitely put me on war’s path–I realize that there are no guarentees once you enter the military. Thanks in advance!

Army linguists are guarentteed to go to a war zone – just because they are a linguist – they are a soldier first – with Navy / Air Force it is different – it depends on the job that you have – talk with a recruiter about spesific linguist jobs – most of the time with the Air Force it involved ear phones and a little cubical. Even if you know a language, they will still send you to the DLI – they may assign you a different language all together, then you still have to go on to your AIT school depending on what job you have – Air Force mostly goes to Goodfellow. That process takes 1 1/2 – 2 years depending on you language. Who knows we could be out of Iraq by then. Pay is good once you are in for a while – but as an Enlistedman with kids, things are tight , you can do it, but you just have to be smart(unless you have a spouce working then it is lots easier. The military will move your family to Monterey for you DLI then to Goodfellow – then to whereever you will be stationed – easy moves. You can walk out of the DLI with an associates in your language and a security clearance – after your military career is done it is super easy to get a gov job that pays VERY well. If you get assigned a different language than you already speak, you can still take the DLPT in your first language and get language pay for 2 languages. My husbands a linguist studing KOrean here – it is his 3rd language. We love it. Hope things work out for you. They are long hard days of school – 8-10 hours in a class room with 3 hours of homework at night. Family time is minimal, we just learn to budget it like money. Jeeper Peeper is wrong – there are Korean linguists is Iraq right now – because they are soldiers first and have other talents besides linguists – that is the way the Army works

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