The article “Soldiers Bridge Language, Cultural Barriers at Combined Resolve Exercise”, talks about how NATO has tried to standardize language across the 29 nations during the multinational Combined Resolve X. The Combined Resolve is a exercise created to test the readiness and capabilities of the U.S Army Europe rotational forces in a multinational environment. This training exercise included almost 3,700 military members from various allied nations. Coalition forces were created for the exercise with the Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Albania, Kosovo, Georgia, and Czech Republic armies facing of against the U.S, Ukrainian, Slovenian, and Latvian armies. According to a Polish Army Command Sgt. Maj., the goal of the exercise was to understand other cultures and different ways of thinking.
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One of the steps taken to do so was to designate English and French as the official languages. This relates to standardization because it creates a common standard language for all the soldiers present. The article mention that body language and gestures are also often used to communicate in multinational medical units. Polish Cpl. Pavel Witkowski, a paramedic, said that translators can sometimes get in the way during a medical emergency, when they need to say something quickly, but don’t know how to say it in another language they use simple words or hand signals when working on a patient. Capt. Gezim Sada said “It is good if everybody can speak another language, but we try to push for everybody to learn English because you cannot go anywhere without English”. Capt. Gezmin Sada’s push for his soldiers learning English is backed by LePage’s theory of projection, because by leaning English they now have the ability to join other military groups that speak
One of the steps taken to do so was to designate English and French as the official languages. This relates to standardization because it creates a common standard language for all the soldiers present. The article mention that body language and gestures are also often used to communicate in multinational medical units. Polish Cpl. Pavel Witkowski, a paramedic, said that translators can sometimes get in the way during a medical emergency, when they need to say something quickly, but don’t know how to say it in another language they use simple words or hand signals when working on a patient. Capt. Gezim Sada said “It is good if everybody can speak another language, but we try to push for everybody to learn English because you cannot go anywhere without English”. Capt. Gezmin Sada’s push for his soldiers learning English is backed by LePage’s theory of projection, because by leaning English they now have the ability to join other military groups that speak