^{Large scale promotional images of young, bright and beautiful recruits. Still images selected from a filmed Open Day at the US Defence Language Institute. The public promotional youtube video from 2019. Training soldiers dance on a stage adorned in the traditional dress of their assigned study language, to popular ‘culturally significant’ music tracks - a war and peace dance.} 

^{Cultural educational materials equip soldiers with speech that commands, warns and instructs, helpful words, phrases and questions to negotiate interrogations, locations and conduct mine warfare.}

Using what Martin Joos (1948) calls ’formal and frozen registers’. Verbal expressions that are pre- filtered, mediated by consciousness, by wider social structures and by language itself. - Theodor Adorno (1981).