Editing Defense Language Institute (section)

===Consolidation===
In the 1970s the institute's headquarters and all resident language training were consolidated at the West Coast Branch and renamed the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC). In 1973, the newly formed [[United States Army Training and Doctrine Command|U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command]] (TRADOC) assumed administrative control, and in 1976, all English language training operations were returned to the U.S. Air Force, which operates DLIELC to this day.
[[File:San Francisco Public Health Service Hospital.jpg|thumb|262x262px|Former Public Health Service Hospital on The Presidio of San Francisco and former DLI branch location. The building center were classrooms and offices, while both wings were student quarters.]]
The DLIFLC won academic accreditation in 1979 from the [[Western Association of Schools and Colleges]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Accreditation - Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center|url=http://www.dliflc.edu/about/accreditation/|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> and in 1981 the position of academic dean (later called provost) was reestablished. In the early 1980s, crowding and living conditions at the Monterey location forced the institute to open two temporary branches: a branch for air force enlisted students of Russian at [[Lackland Air Force Base]], Texas (1981–1987), and another for army enlisted students of German, Korean and Spanish at the [[Presidio of San Francisco]] (1982–1988) in the former Public Health Service Hospital. There were only enlisted male and female students at the Presidio of San Francisco, primarily from the [[Military occupational specialty code|Military Occupational Specialties]] of [[Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army)|Military Intelligence]] and [[Military Police Corps (United States)|Military Police]] with a small number of [[Special Forces (United States Army)|Army Special Forces]]. As a result of these conditions, the institute began an extensive facilities expansion program on the Presidio. In 2002 the [[Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges]] accredited the institute as an [[associate degree]]-granting institution.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Defense Language Institute awards 5,000th Associate of Arts degree|url=https://www.army.mil/article/36048/The_Defense_Language_Institute_awards_5_000th_Associate_of_Arts_degree|publisher=[[United States Army]]|date=18 March 2010}}</ref>