Browsing: Regional Culture and Language Familiarization

Newly promoted sergeants, get ready for new education requirements to make it to staff sergeant — or any rank beyond. The Corps is rolling out a new professional education requirement for enlisted Marines that will need to be completed before making it to any new rank, all the way up to master gunnery sergeant. The program is called Regional, Culture and Language Familiarization, or RCLF for short. It takes the globe, carves it up into 17 different sections, and assigns to Marines the cultures and languages associated with each. New lieutenants have been doing this since 2008 and new warrant officers since 2010. The…

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