AFIO SF Chapter Presents: LTC Christopher Gin, Former DLI Battalion Commander and Stanford Fellow at Army's War College

Speaker: LTC Chris Gin, Former Commander, 229th Military Intelligence Battalion, Defense Language Institute 

Topic: The Language of War: Modern Language Training at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025     

Time: 11:30am no-host cocktails; meeting starts promptly at 12 noon 

Location: In-Person at the Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080                                                            

LTC Christopher Gin commanded the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion at the Defense Language Institute from 2022-2024. He is currently an Army War College Fellow at the Freeman Spongli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. LTC Gin is a 2005 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a BA in English/Chinese Studies and an MA from the University of Hawai'i in Asian Studies, where he was a graduate degree fellow with the East–West Center.

Throughout his career, he has held various operational intelligence leadership positions in FORSCOM, SOCOM, and TRADOC, and will continue his service this summer with the US Army Pacific in Hawai'i