Tactical Iraqi wins 2007 I/ITSEC Serious Games Showcase & Challenge

Tactical Iraqi wins DARPA's 2005 Award for Significant Technical Achievement

"I can best summarize Tactical Iraqi's success by quoting one soldier's words: 'I learned more Arabic in one day with it than I learned in my whole tour in Iraq.'"
Dr. Anthony J. Tether, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

"The idea is to put behind every steering wheel and behind every trigger finger in a foreign country a little bit of that culture and language....I'll be happy if this could save just one life by preventing a misunderstanding."
Dr. Ralph Chatham, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Results, sponsors and clients

Results

Since the first release of the Tactical Iraqi Language & Culture Training System in August 2006 — followed by the releases of Tactical Pashto and Tactical French courses in 2007 — outcomes have been and continue to be excellent.

Over 20,000 U.S. servicemen and a growing number of members of the Australian Defence Force have successfully learned and transferred to the real world the Iraqi Arabic, Pashto, and Sahel French language skills they acquired with our training programs.

An evaluation of the Tactical Iraqi course by the U.S. Special Operations Command found that trainees learn Arabic to an Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) proficiency of 0+ after as little as a week of study. Many rate our courses better — and more fun — than other self-study and instructor-led classes.

Sponsors

Our military sponsors include the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Marine Corps through its Program Manager for Training Systems (PM TRASYS) and Training and Education Command (TECOM); the U.S. Special Operations Command; the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM); the U.S. Air Force Research Labs; the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center; the U.S. Army Research Institute; the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Command, and the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research.

Partial list of military installations

	Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey learning Arabic with the Tactical Iraqi course assisted by Lt. Col. Kurt Schneider at the Language Lab on Fort Riley's Camp Funston.

United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

United States Marine Corps

Mountain Warfare Training Center (Bridgeport, CA)

Air Ground Combat Center (29 Palms, CA)

Expeditionary Warfare School (Quantico, VA) – requires training for all EWS students

I Marine Expeditionary Force (Camp Pendleton, CA)

II Marine Expeditionary Force (Camp Lejeune, NC)

III Marine Expeditionary Force (Okinawa, Japan)

United States Army

1AD Battle Command Training Center (Ft. Hood, TX)

Command and General Staff College (Ft. Leavenworth, KS)

Training and Doctrine Command Culture Center (Ft. Huachuca, AZ)

1st Infantry Division (Ft. Riley, KS)

3rd Infantry Division (Ft. Stewart, Ft. Benning, Hunter Army Air Field, GA)

25th Infantry Division (Schofield Barracks, HI)

11th Armored Cavalry Regiment at the National Training Center (Ft. Irwin, CA)

1st Artillery Division (Kuwait)

10th Mountain Division (Ft. Drum, NY and Afghanistan)

Southern European Task Force (Caserna Ederle, Italy)

Australian Defence Force

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