Presidio of Monterey News

The Army announced Wednesday plans to move 13 jobs and a training program for interpreters and translators of Middle Eastern languages from Fort Jackson to Arizona.

The Army announced today the decision to relocate the Translator/Interpreter Military Occupation Specialty Advanced Individual Training Course from Fort Jackson, S.C. to the proponent school at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence, Fort Huachuca, Ariz.

CECOM is the major tenant at Fort Monmouth. Relocating thousands of Department of the Army civilian positions to Maryland will be disruptive to the support received by the soldiers in the field with two wars in progress.

DLIFLC's Immersion Language Training Cox Construction in Vista, CA won a $13.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to build a general instruction building at the Presidio of Monterey, CA.

Army Col. Sue Ann Sandusky, commandant of the Defense Language Institute, lays a wreath in honor of all veterans during a ceremony on Tuesday, in honor of Veterans Day.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Over 250 acres of vegetation were cleared at Burn Unit 14 and the prescribed burn at Fort Ord is now complete.

A prescribed burn is set to take place this week on the grounds of the former Fort Ord.

A prescribed burn on Fort Ord has been scheduled for Tuesday, according to Army officials.

The Presidio of Monterey will hold a Classic Car Show on Oct. 3 from noon to 6 p.m. at Soldier Field in conjunction with Operation Rising Star Finale.

Ceremonies will be held today to mark the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed 2,993 people, including the crew, passengers and hijackers of the four airliners used in the attacks.

Photo credit Patrick Buffett Staff Sgt. Luis Duran representing Company E, 71st Transportation Battalion, 8th Transportation Brigade, Fort Eustis, Va., was named the first Advanced Individual Training Platoon Sergeant of the Year during a ceremony on Fort Monroe, Va., on Sept.

They called it "touring Afghanistan by submarine." That meant viewing the countryside through an armored personnel carrier's bulletproof glass porthole while being whisked at high speed from the airport to a fortified military compound, Army Col.

The top-ranking military officer in the nation is showing his four-star flag on the Peninsula this week.

Sgts. Bud Mukai and Ralph Saito, 7th Infantry Division, interrogate a Japanese prisoner of war in this Army photo from World War II that became the cover photo for military historian James McNaughton's book about Japanese-Americans who became interpreters after joining the Military Intelligence Service Language School.

Aug. 2--Being part of the community is better protection than body armor in Afghanistan, and the best counterinsurgency weapon is ensuring that farmers can bring in a good crop.

Being part of the community is better protection than body armor in Afghanistan, and the best counterinsurgency weapon is ensuring that farmers can bring in a good crop.

Sloat Landing Day used to be a major production in Monterey. On July 7 or thereabouts, the Peninsula would echo to the thunder of salute batteries from ship and shore and take in an elaborate display of uniforms at Custom House Plaza.

While clutching a crucifix in her hand, the wife of Army Spc. Eduardo Silva bent down and pressed her head against her husband's casket to say goodbye.

About 50 family members and friends of Army Spc. Eduardo Silva gathered this morning at Salinas Municipal Airport as the fallen soldier returned to Monterey County in a flag-draped casket.