From a linguist/Navy perspective - we didn't teach linguists to jump, we taught SEALs to speak the language.
Much better chance of the student passing.
I was an older student at DLI and thus spent most of my time with other, older sailors. A few SEALs and an EOD guy. There to learn languages as it's easier than the other way around. The army MI types I was around were all prior Russian lings who spent most of their time not doing language things or MI things with their first unit.
