Fort Meade Language Competition

DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (U) Fort Meade Language Competition FROM: NCS Center for Language (E3) Run Date: 04/19/2004 FROM: NCS Center for Language (E3) (U//FOUO) The Fort Meade Joint Language Center (JLC) Local language competition is held in March each year. This year's competition was held 22 - 26 March and was a resounding success. Over 70 voice language analysts with expertise in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian-Farsi, Russian, Serbian-Croatian and Spanish participated in the resident games. (U) Competitors in the language competition met one of the following requirements: active duty member of the U.S. Armed Forces member of the U.S. Reserve Component civilian employee of the Federal Government (U) Additionally, competitors were filling a linguist billet or a language-required position at the time of competition. At least one member of each team was a graduate of the basic language course in which they competed. (U) The competition consisted of games including: Listening, Reading, Jeopardy, Intel-triathlon, Impromptu, Spot Report, Power Word, 20 Questions and Showdown. Many units use the Fort Meade Language Competition as an indicator of how some of their linguists might do in the annual Defense Language Institute (DLI) sponsored language competition. The DLI sponsored competition will be held in September. (U//FOUO) The competition highlighted the caliber of our military members and their critical contributions to the NSA mission. Congratulations to all who participated and a special congratulations to these top finishers: Arabic Gold SGT 741, HOC, S2I22 Silver SSgt Bronze SSgt 22IS, S2I13 Gold SSG 741, HOC, F72 Silver SSgt Bronze SSG , 704, HHC Gold SSG , 741, HOC, S2B41 Silver SGT Bronze TSgt , 22IS, S2E31 Chinese , 22IS, S2B33 Korean Persian-Farsi 741, HOC, S214 22IS, S2B41

Gold CTI1 NSGA, S2D22 Silver CTIC Bronze SSgt , 22IS, S2E42 Gold TSgt 22IS, S2H32 Silver SrA S2H31 Bronze SGT S2F21 , NSGA, S2G12 Russian 22IS, , 741, C Co, Serbo-Croatian Gold SrA 94IS, S2A5 Silver SPC 742, A Co, E31 Bronze SrA 22IS, S2A53 Gold SPC S2F23 741, C Co, Silver CTI2 NSGA, S2F1 Bronze CTI1 Spanish , NSGA "(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)." DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL DERIVED FROM: NSA/CSSM 1-52, DATED 08 JAN 2007 DECLASSIFY ON: 20320108