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Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits

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80 points churchill | 1 comments | 01 May 23 13:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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alexpotato ◴[01 May 23 18:45 UTC] No.35777272[source]▶
> Mormon people often have strong foreign language skills, from missions overseas

I remember reading that the Mormon language school that prepares people for their overseas mission trips has a lot of Special Forces personnel from the military attending as well.

The reason: the number of languages taught at the Mormon school exceeds those taught at the military language schools. This includes dialects spoken by a tiny proportion of the global population but that population is strategically useful to some agenda of US foreign policy.

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1. cjmcqueen ◴[02 May 23 04:23 UTC] No.35783338[source]▶
Not exactly correct. The Mission Training Center has only missionaries of the church attend for language training. But, Special Forces and many other agencies have studied and patterned their own language training off of the MTC model.