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Published: 2004*

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The Air Force's foreign language program has been reinvigorated after 9/11. A language transformation plan is in development at Air Staff, standards for language proficiency are being raised throughout DOD, and the Chief of Staff has issued his Sight Picture on language as an Air Force roadmap for the future. The new standard for language proficiency, using the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT), is a score of 3 in Reading, Writing, and Speaking; an increase from the previous score of 2+ on a scale of zero to five. While this goal is within the reach of most Air Force language professionals, the opportunities to get there are not.