When asked about her Sailors and their impact on her, she replied, “I have immense respect for both the young Sailors who are away from home for the first time as well as the Sailors who are juggling all of their new requirements with managing a family, invariably isolated with COVID, and learning the language at the pace required at DLIFLC 100% online and excelling at it. “My time as a student, and the interactions I had with my LPOs and chiefs at the time influenced what kind of leader I wanted to be, and aspired me to take on the challenge of helping shape the culture of DLIFLC and the Navy’s future linguists”. “Returning to DLIFLC as staff has been simultaneously an exhausting and invigorating experience” added Schmidt. “I’ve always mentally toyed had always toyed with the idea of joining the military….my uncle was an Army officer who studied Portuguese at the Defense Language Institute who, surprisingly (since he was retired Army), encouraged me to look at the Navy.”Īfter a conversation with a Navy chief at the DLIFLC, she was motivated to enlist as a CTI where she graduated from the Persian-Farsi course in 2012.Īfter multiple successful operational tours, she made the decision to return to IWTC Monterey, only this time as a staff member. When she returned home, “it was really hard to find a job,” remarked Schmitt. As a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Spanish in 2008, Schmitt went to Venezuela shortly thereafter where she taught English. Instead, she arrived by a circuitous route. Schmitt did not join the Navy immediately after high school.
– Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) (CTI) 1st Class Sara Schmitt is serving as the leading petty officer (LPO) of N34, the division of 86 trainees at Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Monterey studying Persian-Farsi and Modern Standard Arabic at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC).
By Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Amos Hoover, Information Warfare Training Command Monterey
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