Marines' Insight into Why Cultural Training Was Not Effective for Them

Abstract

To provide some concrete measures assessing Marine Corps culture and language learning programs, the U.S. Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL) sent out a survey during February 2010 to 15% of all Marines with email addresses on the Marine Corps Global Address List, excluding general officers. CAOCL received 2406 valid responses from Marines, representing all 42 military occupational specialties, all ranks, and all educational levels. The majority of Marines who indicated they had received predeployment cultural training considered that training effective. For those who did not, lack of need for cultural capabilities and problems with instruction were the most significant causes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 09, 2012
Accession Number
AD1088110

Entities

People

  • Erika Tarzi

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer-Aided Instruction
  • Construction
  • Data Sets
  • Deployment
  • Education
  • General Officers
  • Instructions
  • Instructors
  • Language
  • Learning
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Occupational Specialties
  • Operational Effectiveness
  • Operational Readiness
  • Social Sciences
  • Training

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  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.