Living in Utah and working as a full-time civilian, serving as a National Guardsman, and pursuing an international politics degree from Pennsylvania State University, McCarthy had little time to improve her language skills.
“But after I saw what Utah has with Morocco, it encouraged me to broaden my opportunities.” “I wanted to pursue a route with foreign affairs or diplomatic relations,” said McCarthy. McCarthy grew up with Korean and English simultaneously but chose Arabic through the Defense Language Institute, because she felt passionate about Middle East and North African affairs. Seeking opportunity, she joined the Utah Army National Guard to pursue language opportunities and a career in the intelligence community. McCarthy grew up in Korea, with a Korean mother and American father, she left her family shortly after celebrating her 18th birthday and graduating high school.
Patient care was a focus for medical personnel conducting surgical and dental care, and optometry exams with the issuance of eyeglasses to approximately 7,000 patients.įor McCarthy, coming to Morocco to assist as a translator during African Lion 2019 was a mission she never thought she would undertake. Armed Forces conducting the humanitarian civic assistance portion of the exercise brought medical capabilities such as surgery, dentistry, optometry, gynecology, cardiology, internal medicine, pharmacy, radiology, and general public health. Jasmine McCarthy, a signals intelligence analyst and an Arabic linguist with the Utah National Guard, using her multilingual skill repertoire came as a critical asset to mission success in the humanitarian civic assistance portion of exercise African Lion 2019, March 25-April 3, 2019, Tata, Morocco. One way to retain this perishable skill is to continuously use it with native speakers.įor U.S. Learning a different language is no easy undertaking sustaining it is even harder.
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