As part of the diplomatic service, I quite often had to communicate with representatives of various special services of the United States, incl. with military diplomats. In Yemen, at the very beginning of his international career, at one of the diplomatic receptions I met one of the assistant US military attachés and asked him with interest how he became what he became. He did not shy away from answering and told me in some detail what he had to go through. I passed this conversation over to our military attaché, to which Colonel Ovcharenko, barely hiding a smile, discouraged me: "It was he who told you his legend."
Now I can tell myself where the US military diplomats come from.
Anacostia-Bolling Joint Base (District of Columbia)
All employees of the US military attaches, as well as of Russia, are military intelligence officers. First of all, they receive general intelligence training at the centers of the US Intelligence Community. Here, in addition to closed curricula, university academic curricula are used, which can serve as the basis of curricula for intelligence training.
In addition, general intelligence officer training is provided at the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center (JMITC).
Officers who have successfully completed general intelligence training are sent to the Joint Military Attaché School (JMAS) at the Joint Anacostia-Bolling Base (JBAB) in the District of Columbia. Here they learn the specifics of agent work as part of diplomatic and consular missions for further service in the Military Attachments System (DAS).
In general, JMAS trains employees of five services of the Department of Defense and employees from among its civilian personnel who are members of the Defense Attaché Service (DAS) of the US military intelligence. It is noteworthy that together with the DAS employees, their spouses study at the courses at JMAS.
As for the National Intelligence University (NIU), this university is a kind of institution for advanced training of already established military intelligence officers.
It is noteworthy that the nomenclature of languages from the prospective list of the US Department of Defense is divided into three categories, including 40 positions.
The first category - languages and dialects, in specialists with knowledge of which there is an urgent need:
1) baluchi, 2) Yemeni dialect of Arabic, 3) the Levantine dialect of the Arabic language, 4) Pashto, 5) somalia, 6) Urdu, 7) Farsi.
The second category is languages and dialects, the need for specialists with knowledge of which appears in the short term (up to 10 years):
1) Azerbaijani, 2) Amharic, 3) acoli, 4) bengali, 5) Burmese, 6) Kyrgyz, 7) Punjabi, 8) Tajik, 9) Uzbek, 10) hindi.
The third category is languages and dialects, the need for specialists with knowledge of which takes place in the long term (more than 10 years):
1) Arabic literary (standard), 2) Vietnamese, 3) give, 4) Hebrew, 5) Indonesian, 6) Spanish, 7) Chinese (Mandarin), 8) Korean, 9) Kurdish, 10) Malay, 11) German, 12) Portuguese, 13) Romanian, 14) Russian, 15) Serbo-Croatian, 16) Swahili, 17) Tagalog (pilipino), 18) Thai, 19) Turkish, 20) Ukrainian, 21) French, 22) hausa, 23) Japanese.
Here it would be appropriate to say that the intelligence services of Russia are lagging behind in the training of specialists, incl. officers with knowledge of Acholi, Baluchi, Punjabi and Somali.
