AFS Intercultural Programs
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Oct 2, 2026
Brian HobbsGUEST
So I set my sights on the Air Force.
Brian HobbsGUEST
And when I was in high school, there was, there's an organization called the American Field Service, AFS, that does high school exchange, and somebody from that, from AFS came to my high school and was looking to promote and recruit people that would be interested, high school students interested in going overseas.
Brian HobbsGUEST
I went home and talked to my parents, and they did not have that much going in the way of income and things like that, but they still were very supportive.
Brian HobbsGUEST
And I ended up going to Japan.
Brian HobbsGUEST
And I was in the office at SAF/IA, the deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, when we put the new serious version of the FAO career field together based on direction from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Michael HillHOST
You said this was an international field service that got you over to Japan?
Brian HobbsGUEST
It was called the American Field Service, AFS.
Michael HillHOST
American Field Service.
Sarah BirnieHOST
Did you go to lessons first? Did you have kind of some kind of skill beforehand? And then, yeah,
Anne MilitelloGUEST
well, I, when I was in high school, I was an exchange student, the first in my school and the first in my city, actually, with the American Field Service.
Anne MilitelloGUEST
And they sent me to live with a family in Lebanon.
Anne MilitelloGUEST
And I got a scholarship.
Seth WinterhalterHOST
I mean ...
Marketa OliverGUEST
I went to, and it was th- through American Field Service, the AFS program, and, uh, I lived with a family in Australia for a year.
Marketa OliverGUEST
And, uh, AFS has this tagline that says it's, uh, a, an experience of a lifetime... dot, dot, dot, a lifetime experience.
Marketa OliverGUEST
And for me, it really has been.
Lindsay GoldsteinGUEST
It was kind of a whim, but it was an option.
Lindsay GoldsteinGUEST
And I went back, I went with AFS, American Field Service, and said, I'll go there.
Lindsay GoldsteinGUEST
And they said, okay, great, that works perfectly.
Lindsay GoldsteinGUEST
And that was that.
Nikki YoungHOST
He wanted to actually get to live there.
Nikki YoungHOST
So, while he was in high school, Yoshi applied for an exchange program through AFS, the American Field Service.
Nikki YoungHOST
The idea of leaving Japan wasn't something that he took lightly.
Nikki YoungHOST
He would be just 16 years old, traveling thousands of miles away from his parents, his siblings, his friends, and everything familiar to him.