From a linguist/Navy perspective - we didn't teach linguists to jump, we taught SEALs to speak the language.
That sounds congruent with a case I will share of an approaching 6'4" african American in Bosnia with SF body ink markings
and capable of not only speaking Bosnian, but actually fluently speaking the local dialect, the locals were mighty impressed.
He seemed to be masquerading in some sort of NGO position in charge of some supposedly international effort fly-in 'aid workers'.
