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How to become an interpreter for the U.S. Navy #interpreter
Foreign language translation jobs are paramount to our nation’s security. That’s because, around the clock and around the globe, communications in a multitude of foreign languages are being sent and...
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Use your native language skills to help complete the mission in the National...
Interpreter/Translators and Linguists In the Guard, accurate communication is essential to every mission’s success. So it’s important that some members of the Guard are able to read and understand the...
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Voice of America Persian story about DLIFLC
Filed under: Interpreter Careers, Interpreters, Language News, Military Tagged: Defense Language Institute, Department of Defense, Language News (DLI), Language News (DOD), Military Interpreters,...
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Interpreters left ‘to be hunted down by Taleban’
By ELLEN BRANAGH Published on Friday 22 March 2013 00:00 Afghan interpreters who helped British forces are left behind to be “hunted down by the Taleban” because of a refusal by the UK government to...
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TRADOC general tells students language is “life skill”
Published on Mar 15, 2013 The deputy commanding general of the U.S. Training and Doctrine Command, LTG David Halverson, told service members studying Chinese at the Defense Language Institute Foreign...
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Interpreter’s Career Rises, Then Falls, Amidst Tehran-Washington Standoff
SAN DIEGO — Amir Mohammed Estakhri is an American citizen of Iranian descent, and a longtime San Diego resident. He’s a native Farsi speaker — the official language of Iran. And he speaks Dari, a very...
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Afghan military interpreters seek US refuge US government criticised for not...
Via Al Jazeerah Some former US soldiers who were helped by Afghans on the battlefield are complaining that too few of their interpreters have been granted refugee visas to the US. Former US Army...
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New Zealand withdraws its troops from Afghanistan, grants Afghan interpreters...
By Associated Press, Published: April 4 BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — New Zealand has withdrawn its small contingent of troops from Afghanistan. The South Pacific nation had stationed about 145 soldiers in...
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Iran and the US: An Interpreter Working For Both Sides Hits a Wall
The latest round of talks between the US and its western allies and Iran over that country’s nuclear program ended last week without much progress in resolving the conflict. Shortly after, Iran...
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Afghan Interpreters for the U.S. Are Left Stranded and at Risk via @nytimes
KABUL, Afghanistan — The first time the Taliban tried to kill him, Sulaiman was driving to his base when his truck was hit by a rocket, knocking him down a cliff. The insurgents knew his vehicle, its...
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Afghan interpreters could be offered relocation to Britain David Cameron...
Hundreds of Afghan interpreters who have risked their lives working with UK forces in Helmand province could be offered relocation to Britain this week when David Cameron reviews the issue at a...
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Afghan interpreters to arrive in NZ today
Thirty Afghan interpreters and their families are expected to arrive in Auckland today. The Afghan interpreters played an essential role in New Zealand’s mission in Bamiyan Province, but translators...
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We can’t forget debt to interpreters, say soldiers
British veterans who served in Helmand province have called on the Government not to abandon the interpreters who worked with them, enduring the same risks and hardships. Their appeal was backed by a...
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British Army officers press for asylum to Afghan interpreters –via The Tribune
Senior serving and retired British Army officers have joined in the call for London to grant asylum to Afghan interpreters who have been working alongside UK forces in the country. They include former...
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Marine Linguist Named Best in DoD
Marine Corps Base Hawaii — Breaking past language barriers is a challenge, but it’s one Sgt. Miguel Iles meets every day. Iles, an Asia-Pacific cryptologic linguist with 3rd Radio Battalion,...
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Goff asks why asylum denied to Afghan translators– via Scoop Independent News
Goff asks why asylum denied to Afghan translators The Government must explain why five former interpreters for the New Zealand Defence Force in Afghanistan have been excluded from resettlement in New...
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DoD aims to increase Islamic interpreters in US despite known risks –via...
In an effort to fast track more foreign interpreters, Senate staffers have confirmed the Defense Department has been lobbying the Senate to pass comprehensive immigration reform Bill S744 (skip to p....
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Meeting Mansoor: Afghan translators struggle to come to the US –via glboalpost
Of the 7,500 visas set aside by the US government for Afghans who risk their lives working for US forces, only 12 percent have been used in the last five years. KABUL, Afghanistan — The first thing...
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Congress to vote on visa program for Afghan interpreters –via Washington Post
By Kevin Sieff,June 13, 2013 KABUL — For years, Afghan interpreters who risk their lives working with the American military have been promised safe haven in the form of U.S. visas that would allow...
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America’s Afghan And Iraqi Interpreters Risk Lives But Wait Years In Danger...
The Americans are not going to be here forever,” Taliban militants told Faizi while he was on assignment in a Kandahar prison. “Now we know your face.” They vowed to the 27-year-old, U.S.-contracted...
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