It's a marriage made in heaven. The FAO students focus on military and political history and other regional topics. They also play a major role in the foreign officials' education, he said. Each FAO student sponsors a senior foreign student. They pick each other's brains, speak each other's languages.
Barriers break down.
They start relating to one another. Friendships are developed which will live on. A highlight of the FAO program is in-country internships that range from 30 days to six months. Relationships built in Garmisch contribute to the success of these internships. For instance, Beto said, many interns have returned from Central Asia swearing they'd never have made it if not for the friends they'd made at the Marshall Center.