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Stop worrying about your DLAB score. Only bureaucrats in the Army think it's indicative of anything, let alone ability to learn a foreign language. Exercise self-discipline, diligently study the material you're given in the course, and you'll do just fine. Blow it off, fail to demonstrate motivation and discipline, slack off with poor study habits, etc., and you can serve your country in another capacity, probably as an 11B somewhere.
Do the best you can because failure isn't a surviveable option.
For those of you following this thread - language training is critical and it's going to get worse. I interact daily with USASFC(A)'s Language Program Manager. SWCS is caught between a rock (reality) and a hard place (**** perceptions about what language ability and cultural awareness really mean). Really smart, dedicated guys are having to say "yes sir, yes sir, three bags full", and try to meet impossible expectations. It's eventually going to lead to a complete revamp of how we look at and train languages. I've seen the writing on the wall and it isn't pretty. "Nuff said.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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