Milestone: Marble starts language training

Sarah L. Marble, a 2012 graduate of Sequim High School, is an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet involved in Cadet Language and Cultural Immersion Training.

Sarah L. Marble, a 2012 graduate of Sequim High School, is an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet involved in Cadet Language and Cultural Immersion Training.

After a week-long training session at Fort Knox, Ky., selected cadets are deployed to partner nations where they are immersed in the local cultures and languages.

Cadets spend three weeks assisting Army missions that range from community outreach projects to teaching English to local children or host country military personnel. They are not only getting a total immersion in another culture but also are building positive relationships and helping the people of partner nations, program officials say.

Marble deployed to Lithuania to teach conversational English to Lithuanian junior officers and senior noncommissioned officers.

She is a student at Santa Clara University, in Santa Clara, Calif.