{"id":181858,"date":"2024-05-21T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=181858"},"modified":"2024-05-21T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:16:14","slug":"airmans-language-skills-key-in-search-for-wwii-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=181858","title":{"rendered":"Airman&#8217;s Language Skills Key in Search for WWII Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>\n    A 25-member team from the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency, is in the vicinity of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, searching for three missing airmen, whose C-47A aircraft was presumably shot down by German anti-aircraft fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>The recovery mission would be very difficult without a member of the team who speaks French, as discussions with the landowner, contractors and vendors are required.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This task belongs to Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kim Nota, a native of Brandon, Manitoba. She said her parents are both originally from Quebec, so they spoke to her in French as a child.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>Nota said Canadian French is a different dialect than what is spoken in France. &#8220;So, people know right away that I&#8217;m not from here,&#8221; she said, laughing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s enough similarity between the accents that communication is no problem, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Nota encountered a different French dialect. In 2014, she deployed to Niger, which was once a French colony. It got some getting used to learning that dialect as well, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>Both of Nota&#8217;s parents were in the Royal Canadian Air Force. They live in Ottawa, Canada, and are Canadian citizens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nota first came to the U.S. in 2003. She enlisted in 2010 and later became a U.S. citizen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her actual Air Force job isn&#8217;t being an interpreter. She&#8217;s a communications technician.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--popup--><\/p>\n<p>This is her first recovery mission and she said being on the team is incredible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being here is super interesting to me. Just being able to actually do something with my language is something I don&#8217;t really get a chance to do all the time,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doing something that&#8217;s so much bigger than myself \u2014 so much bigger than [the] small bubble that I occupy. What an awesome opportunity,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-member team from the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency, is in the vicinity of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, searching for three missing airmen, whose C-47A aircraft was presumably shot down by German anti-aircraft fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The recovery mission would be very difficult without a member of the team who speaks French, as discussions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":181860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181861,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181858\/revisions\/181861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}