Air Force Culture and Language Center Articles - Tag INDOPACOM

Nov. 12, 2020
eMentor Spotlight: Maj Richard Uber

“I joined LEAP in 2011. As a LEAP scholar, I have continued growing and developing in the study of foreign language and culture while advancing in my primary job as an Operations Research Analyst. Through LEAP, I have participated in several e-Mentor classes, including two special projects classes,
Nov. 4, 2020
LEAP Spotlight: Capt Panupong Phongpitakvises

LF Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) is an annual exercise consisting of a series of bilateral training evolutions between the U.S. and several Southeast Asian countries, in which U.S. Marines and Sailors train cross-culturally with service members of these nations.
July 22, 2020
LEAP Spotlight: Maj Theodore Shillig

Maj Theodore Shillig is a 62E (Developmental Engineer) who has been a Japanese LEAP scholar since 2011. He began his language training during a two-year immersion in Japan. During this time, the focus was solely on learning to speak.
June 25, 2020
LEAP Spotlight: 2nd Lt Katherine Scheibner

Meet the Air Force Culture and Language Center’s (AFCLC) first United States Space Force (USSF) scholar 2nd Lieutenant Katherine Scheibner.
June 24, 2020
LEAP Spotlight: Capt Thien Duong

Recently, an overseas unit lost an Airman of Vietnamese heritage. Due to the proximity of the Airman’s family, Barksdale AFB Mortuary Affairs was responsible for assisting the family through the ordeal.
March 26, 2020
‘Mahalo LEAP’

If you were to ask the Air Force Culture and Language Center’s Director, Mr. Howard Ward what would be one of his top three ingredients to making a great LEAP scholar, one guaranteed answer would be energy and Major Charlynne “Char” McGinnis has plenty of it.
Aug. 27, 2019
LEAP scholar shares his journey from humble beginnings in Korea to Air Force flight nurse

Air Force Major Michael Yim remembers his early days in the United States vividly. At just 15, his family relocated from their home in Korea to Virginia. It was a long journey that came with some harsh realities for the Korean-born teenager now living in the U.S.“I just remember getting here and
Aug. 12, 2019
Storyteller—Life is an opportunity—don’t waste it

“Hey, your mom drank poison, and they are taking her to the hospital.” Those were the words Staff Sgt. Gopal Pudasaini, 21st Medical Operations Squadron family health clinic patient advocate, heard as he was in the middle of a school exam in a small village near Kathmandu, the capital of
Sept. 4, 2018
The role language and culture played in the dramatic Thai cave rescue

When the final child was pulled from the cave in Thailand, the crowd cheered, and the rescuers let out a deep sigh of relief. It was a non-verbal cue that was clear in every language: this terrifying ordeal was over.
Aug. 1, 2018
Get to know: Air Force Times’ Airman of the Year and LEAP Scholar Capt Gluck

Air Force Captain Julian Gluck has a few copies of the Air Force Times at his home that he has been giving to family. The newspapers and a large wooden American flag serve as keepsakes for the B-52 long-range bomber pilot who has been named the publication’s Airman of the Year. At just 27-years-old,