Since his college days, Iles studied Mandarin Chinese and is intrigued by Chinese literature. “I find the Western media is very lazy when it comes to reporting from foreign media.” “I can read not only what the Western media is saying, but read the original press releases from North and South Korea, as well as commentary made by China,” he said. He went out and actively sought out the hardest languages to learn.”Īlthough much of his work is classified, Iles said he’s learned a lot of cultural background information from unclassified sources in their native languages. “The fact that he learned Korean in 18 months, and Chinese largely through immersion, is a testament to Phillabaum said it was both Iles’ significant contribution to intelligence and his high proficiency scores in two challenging languages that set him apart from others. Devin Phillabaum, Alpha Company commander, 3rd Radio Bn. His language skills are vital to processing and analyzing collected intelligence information, said Capt. Within the short amount of time he was there, he accomplished quite a bit.” “He completed every bit of training he needed to do and every time he could go up for advancement, he did. Kenneth Nienhuser, who is another Asian-Pacific cryptologic linguist with 3rd Radio Bn. “From the time we got there, we hit the ground running,” said Sgt. Army service members processing intelligence reports. He’s served as a translator during joint efforts of the Ulchi-Freedom Guardian exercises and alongside Republic of Korea and U.S. Iles gained proficiency in Korean after less than two years of training and deployed for eight months during the last fiscal year. “I went from knowing just kimchi and hello in Korean to being able to understand newspaper articles and television news.” “The program at the Defense Language Institute is great,” said Iles, a native of Grand Rapids, Mich. He is a non-native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and became proficient in Korean through DoD training.
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Iles, an Asia-Pacific cryptologic linguist with 3rd Radio Battalion, prevailed among his armed services colleagues and was recently named the Department of Defense’s Language Professional of the Year. MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII - Breaking past language barriers is a challenge, but it’s one Sgt.
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