[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8538]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  IN HONOR OF COLONEL WILLIAM T. BARE

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 6, 2012

  Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and pay tribute to 
Colonel William T. Bare on the occasion of his retirement from the 
United States Air Force on August 1, 2012.
  Colonel Bare has given 27 stellar years to service to the United 
States Air Force. He has had a wide array of experience in 
intelligence, foreign language training, program management, policy 
development, and has linguistic capabilities in several foreign 
languages. Of particular note, he recently served as the Assistant 
Commandant of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center 
(DLIFLC) and the Commander, 517th Training Group, Presidio of Monterey, 
California, located in my congressional district. The Defense Language 
Institute Foreign Language Center is regarded as one of the finest 
schools for foreign language instruction in the nation.
  It is important that we as a nation recognize our service men and 
women for their dedication to the United States of America, 
particularly those as accomplished as Colonel William T. Bare.
  Mr. Speaker, on behalf of a grateful nation, I join my colleagues 
today in saying thank you to Colonel Bare for his extraordinary 
dedication to duty and service to his country throughout his 
distinguished career in the United States Air Force. I wish him, his 
wife Joselyn, his three daughters Lindsay, Jade, and J'adore (aka 
Jazzy), and his parents Bill and Elinor, much continued happiness as 
they start a new chapter in their lives.

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