![]() Ryan Forte, commander of the military intelligence company in the 9th BEB, 2nd ABCT. Stanley for winning the FORSCOM Linguist of the Year, said Capt. Their service in the Pacific theater of World War II was so successful that it prompted Major General Charles Willoughby to say, "The Nisei shortened the Pacific War by two years and saved possibly a million American lives and saved probably billions of dollars. Dagger Company is extremely proud of Cpl. Its graduates broke codes, served on the front lines, and even became instructors themselves. Eventually MISLS graduated more than 6,000 linguists. Within a couple of years, the school outgrew itself and moved again, this time to Fort Snelling in St. After a number of other midwestern states declined, Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota agreed to take in the school, so it moved to Camp Savage and changed its name to the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS). Because the school was housing Nisei, it had to move or lose nearly all of its students. During the Cold War, there were just a few threats that the intelligence community. ![]() Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 that led to the internment or relocation of Japanese families. Language, foreign language, linguist, culture, translators, military. This naturally led them to the idea of recruiting Nisei, those of Japanese ancestry but born in the U.S., who might have some experience with the language already however, many military officers did not believe that the Nisei should be trusted.ĭespite that pressure, Weckerling and Rasmussen put their jobs on the line and got the Fourth Army Intelligence School opened in San Francisco on November 1, 1941. A few months later President Franklin D. They began to push for the creation of a language school to intensively train people to be military linguists. Kai Rasmussen, realized that there would be a need for Japanese translators in the Pacific. drew closer to war in 1941, a few military officers, notably Lt. ![]()
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