Fewer than half of all Army and Marine Corps special operations personnel completed any of their annual foreign language training in recent years, prompting a call to overhaul how the community ...

One of the main tasks for US special-operations troops is training and working with foreign forces. Language skills are vital for that, but US special-ops units haven't been maintaining those skills.

About 80 percent of the over 3,600 reported on-duty, non-combat accidents involving special operations forces (SOF) personnel occurred during training activities in fiscal years 2012 through 2022, ...

Special operations forces deploy around the world in high-risk missions. And the troops that fall under Special Operations Command experience a high rate of serious and sometimes deadly accidents ...

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Students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center who are studying Chinese can also practice calligraphy as an extracurricular activity.(Patrick Bray/Army) Fewer than half of all Army ...