[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8529]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 IN HONOR OF CAPTAIN ANGELA M. CARSTEN

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 29, 2007

  Mr. FARR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Captain 
Angela M. Carsten, an officer in the United States Air Force, who is 
retiring after 20 years of distinguished service.
  I have had the personal pleasure of knowing Angie since she came to 
DLI in 2004 and I know I speak for the greater DLI community in 
expressing our best wishes for her continued success.
  Throughout her career, both as an enlisted Air Force Airman and as an 
officer, Captain Carsten has personified the Air Force values of duty, 
honor, integrity and selfless service. As Project Manager and Associate 
Dean of the Defense Language Institute's Emerging Languages Task Force, 
many of us on Capitol Hill have been the beneficiaries of her 
communication talents as well as her broad depth of knowledge 
concerning Low-Density High-Demand languages that are critical to our 
nation's security in the Global War on Terrorism.
  Captain Carsten's military service began in 1987, with tours of duty 
at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, and Ramstein 
Air Base in Germany. Captain Carsten provided communications and 
computer support for the local airbases. In 1999, Captain Carsten was 
commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Unites States Air Force through 
Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB in Alabama. From 1999 to 2003, 
Captain Carsten served in a variety of assignments at Hill AFB, Utah.
  Since 2004, she has been an outstanding advocate for the Defense 
Language Institute Foreign Language Center, located in Monterey, 
California, the Congressional district I am proud to represent. As 
Associate Dean of the Defense Language Institute's Emerging Languages 
Task Force, she has briefed the BRAC Committee, the House Defense 
Appropriations Committee, HPSCI and HASC Members, numerous Professional 
Staff of the National Security committees, as well as Service 
Secretaries, foreign dignitaries, and Department of Defense VIPs.
  Most recently, as the Associate Dean, Captain Carsten authored a 
Concept of Operations to build a surge capability for over nineteen 
Immediate Investment and Stronghold languages to augment the current 
DLI curriculum.
  Madam Speaker, on behalf of my colleagues, I thank Captain Carsten 
for her commitment, sacrifice, and contribution to our National 
Security throughout these 20 years.

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