![]() LCDR Jones managed the airframe and systems upgrades of 3 squadron aircraft and aircraft carrier support systems. He was hand-picked to be the Project Officer/Program Manager for Chief of Naval Operations Project K-416, providing precision acoustic data collection and processing capabilities beyond those normally associated with the S-3B aircraft. Upon completion of Fleet Replacement Squadron training at VS-41 he reported to Sea Control Squadron Three Three (VS-33), “The World Famous Screwbirds.” At VS-33 he served in various division officer and safety department billets and earned his Mission Commander designation. He earned the coveted ‘wings of gold’ in 1991. After college LCDR Jones was commissioned as an Ensign through the Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS) Program in Pensacola Florida, and started flight school as a student Naval Flight Officer shortly thereafter. After BOOST, he attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA where he earned a BSSE degree in Industrial Technology. ![]() Before assignment to “A” school he was accepted to the Broadened Opportunity for Officer Selection and Training (BOOST) program. He was a cadet in the Civil Air Patrol during high school but still chose to enlist in the Navy immediately after high school for training in the nuclear machinist mate rating. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and majored in Industrial Design. LCDR Jones was born in Brooklyn NY, the youngest of six children of immigrant parents from Grenada, West Indies. ![]() “It was a good opportunity to build camaraderie with linguists from the other services and compare notes with people that we don’t normally interact with.LCDR John-Michael Jones, United States Navy (ret) ![]() “This is a great program for joint operating bases,” he said. He agreed that one of the best aspects of the event was interacting with the other services. Medina placed second in Persian Farsi with his teammate. “While I learned that I need to spend time learning more about cultural details, the competition also brought out my strength in vocabulary in various levels of my target language,” he said. Tito Medina, with Alpha Company, 742nd MI Battalion, said that while the competition was fun, it was also a learning experience that helped him identify his strengths and areas to focus on. “We had the chance to compare things like our mentorship program with the other services and see how we could improve.”Īrmy teams took first and second place in four of the six languages. “It’s good training and a learning opportunity not just for the competitors but also for the organizers and proctors,” she said. command language program manager assistant, said the competition is a good opportunity to interact with the different services. Teams of two competed against other teams in their language in games such as Jeopardy, Impromptu and 20 Questions to accumulate points toward a final score. The Language Wars pitted Army linguists against their Air Force and Navy counterparts in six major languages: Arabic, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Russian and Persian-Farsi. This year, the Air Force’s 707th Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Group hosted the competition with the assistance of the 704th. The event, which was originally known as the Language Olympics, was revived by the 704th in 2013 after being cancelled in 2005. Top linguists of the 704th Military Intelligence Brigade competed in the second annual Joint Language Wars May 12-16 at Fort Meade, Md., and for the second year in a row the brigade won the competition.
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