Posted on Sep 21, 2022
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You won't find the answer in the DLAB regulation because it's not a DLAB question it's a 35P question. The answer is in DA Pam 611-21, Chapter 10C. It says that you will have a DLAB OR a qualifying score of a 2/2 DLPT in a language. In this case, the language needs to be an in need language as listed in the In/Out calls for your rank. Korean is almost always under strength or balanced. If Korean was over strength and they had no need for Korean then you would need a DLAB for a different language.

Because you're a speaker, you will not attend DLI, and will only attend the SIGINT portion of the course. You must have your TS prior to being able to get a class seat for that.

It sounds like your new Counselor is new. If they give you pushback, go to their senior at the Brigade level. If you are having issues, you can have them contact me, I am a Division Retention Operations NCO and can answer their questions
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SFC (Join to see) - Roger SFC, I naturalized this July. Thank you so much! :D
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SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM
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Thanks for Clarification
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SSgt Clinton Krueger it is completely unreasonable to ask a Soldier to schedule a DOD test that is not required for them before assisting them with their retention needs. Korean is always in need, she's a 5/5 native speaker, it's a win for the Army to put her into the SIGINT course immediately. I

t would be a loss for the Army to make her wait several months to get the DLAB scheduled and receive the results, then wait several more months to go to a language course that's a year long, before going to the SIGINT course. That's a year and a half of wasted productivity waiting for her to qualify as a 35P
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SSgt Clinton Krueger putting people into this MOS is actually my job. I am literally the person who Soldiers come to in order to put them into this MOS, and I've put about a dozen or so Soldiers into this MOS in the Army.

I am a Career Counselor, I haven't just seen this before, I reclass people and send them to school. You are not Army, you're (I assume) Air Force and any advice you have about Army administrative processes is probably incorrect or outdated. Stop giving bad advice about things you don't know about
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SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM
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I would look in the regulation that governs DLABs.
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SSG Dale London
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As far as I remember, DLAB score is a required field on the DA Form 2A of a linguist, so I reckon its mandatory.
It wouldn't surprise me if they use it as a way of prioritizing unit assignments when two soldiers with identical DLPT scores for the same language are competing for an assignment.
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Thank you for the guidance sir.
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