By Brittany R. Ballenstedt
The Defense Department is assembling a corps of people fluent in critical foreign languages to serve the nation during times of emergency or international need.
By 2010, the department will recruit at least 1,000 people to serve in the new National Language Service Corps, said Gail McGinn, deputy undersecretary of Defense for plans and head of the Defense Senior Language Authority. "We're going out to America and asking those who have foreign language skills to come and use them in support of the U.S. government," she said.
Congress gave Defense the authority to start a pilot project to create the corps in the fiscal 2007 Defense authorization act.
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