With Fearlessness And A 'Code Name,' Iraqi Helped Navy SEALs

For years, Johnny Walker interpreted for the U.S. Navy SEALs on missions all over his home country of Iraq. He served on over a thousand missions, and stood out as an invaluable part of nearly every team he worked with.

No, Johnny Walker isn't his real name. The SEALs gave him the nickname in honor of his love of Johnnie Walker Whisky — and to protect his identity, a necessary precaution even today.

"Bad guys, if they hear your real name, they can find you," he tells NPR's Arun Rath.

But before the war, the special ops missions and the American pseudonym, Walker was just a normal guy living in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

He was picking up part-time work as a truck driver when the U.S. Army came to his country. In the new occupying forces, Walker saw an opportunity for a job and a steady paycheck for his family.

"Everyone loved to work with Americans because it's good money," he says. "You would be so proud — 'Oh, guys, I work with Americans.' ... This is in the beginning, in 2003."

For weeks, Walker went from military base to military base, looking for a job. He finally got lucky and picked up work with the military police, quickly making a name for himself as a capable interpreter. It wasn't long before an elite unit of Navy SEALs hired him on.

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By Bridget Naso

'Waited a Long Time for This': Iraqi Navy SEAL Interpreter Sworn in as U.S. Citizen

The Navy SEALs called him by his code name -- Johnny Walker -- and they vowed the military interpreter from Iraq would one day be able to call himself an American.

And on Wednesday, that promise came true.

Watching Johnny Walker being sworn in as a U.S. citizen may have been the end of a long mission for this elite group of U.S. Special Forces.

As he raised his hand during the ceremony in San Diego, Walker said all of the emotion from his countless missions more than a decade ago came flooding back.

“Memories, sweat, blood, everything -- everything came in the same second,” said Walker.

Retired Navy Capt. Steve Wisotzki felt similar emotions as he watched Walker take his oath.

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PORTUGUESE TO SPANISH INTERPRETER

PORTUGUESE TO SPANISH INTERPRETER

We need a PT>SP interpreter in San Francisco on June 11th for a video transmission roundtable with 4 Brazilian Doctors. This will be transmitted to Brazil and Latin America.

Please contact us with your rates at:

careers [at] worldlanguagecommunications [dot] com

You can also register with us here: http://www.worldlanguagecommunications.com/careers

BAHASA MALAY TO ENGLISH

BAHASA MALAY TO ENGLISH

Transcription and Translation 

We have about 30 hours of transcription and translation that we need to split up among
a team of about 3-5 people.

We can accept people doing transcription in Malay only as well as transcription and translation, depending on your fluency level in both Malay and English.

Please contact us at careers [at] worldlanguagecommunications [dot] com with your CV and detailed background on your fluency in both these languages.

You can also register with us here:

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Amazon Is The First Major Tech Company To Hire Full-Time ASL Interpreters

Michael Nesmith is a creative guru at Amazon—his official title being an art director. If you can’t tell by the sleeve of tattoos he has on both of his arms, then you can definitely tell by the myriad of graphics he has designed to advertise Amazon’s products, such as Alexa and the Fire TV Stick.

However, Nesmith isn’t your average guy. He is deaf, which he describes as being both his “superpower” and “kryptonite.” He has been unable to hear since he was a child and was raised by deaf parents.

Unlike any other job he had before joining Amazon, Nesmith has access to a full-time, consistent American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter. Early in 2018, Amazon incorporated an ASL program that entails hiring interpreters as full-time employees, and each interpreter works with the same group of people. Amazon is known to be the only major tech company to provide this service at such a large scale for its deaf employees.

“In our [deaf] culture, we don't really see deafness as a disability. We see it as a unique culture with a language and with an education system that is different from the mainstream,” Nesmith explains. “What’s important is to have access to language. So that's the only thing that really makes, from the outside perspective, my disability unique.” (Jeff Williamson was Nesmith’s interpreter during this interview with Forbes.)

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POLISH TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION

POLISH TO ENGLISH TRANSLATOR

We have 6 pages to translate from Polish to English for this week.

MUST be a NATIVE English translator. No exceptions.

Please contact us with your rates if you are available.

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Please register with us to be considered for future translations.

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JAPANESE to ENGLISH translation

We have a large upcoming legal translation project from Japanese to English. Up to 500 pages of legal contracts in PDF spanning the last 25 years. We require native EN translators only who have experience in complex legal translations.

We will be splitting this up into teams of translators and proofreaders and tests will be required from our final candidates.

Please email to careers [at] worldlanguagecommunications [dot] com

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HAUSA/ENGLISH INTERPRETER

We need a Hausa interpreter over the phone for about 90 minutes to speak to 5 young women in Nigeria.

If you are available, please contact us at careers [at] worldlanguagecommunications [dot] com

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ARABIC TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION

We have a 20,000 word film script to translate from Egyptian Arabic to English. You must be 100% NATIVE in English and we need to see samples of your work to be considered. 

ALL FINAL CANIDATES will be interviewed over Skype, FaceTime or Googleout. No exception. 

If you qualify, please send your CV to careers [at] worldlanguagecommunications [com] 

Please also register with us to be considered for future work. 

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INTERPRETERS NEEDED

SPANISH, HMONG, VIETNAMESE, MANDARIN, KOREAN

PLEASE READ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FULLY. 

APPLICANTS NOT FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE DISREGARDED. 

SUBMISSION INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS SCREEN

We need the following types of Interpreters for this 3 year contract:

1) IN PERSON INTERPRETING IN CALIFORNIA

2) OVER THE PHONE INTERPRETERS (NATIONWIDE)

1) IN PERSON INTERPRETING

We need CERTIFIED interpreters for Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin and Korean and REGISTERED interpreters for Hmong, for a multi-year California state contract at prisons, jails, detention centers and meeting facilities in the following cities, listed below.

We will accept 2 types of certifications:

A) The certification must be defined by the Judicial Council of California Administrative Office of the Courts (JCCAOC) as “an interpreter that has passed the Judicial Council’s Court Interpreter Certification Examination in one (1) of twelve (12) languages,” or, a registered interpreter defined by the JCCAOC as “One who interprets in a spoken language for which there is no state certification exam and has passed the English Fluency Examination.”

B) ATA certified interpreters.

CALIFORNIA CITIES WHERE INTERPRETERS ARE NEEDED: 

Auburn
Bakersfield
Berkeley
Ceres
Chico
Eureka
Fresno
Hanford
Merced
North Highlands
Oakland
Oxnard
Red Bluff
Redding
Sacramento
Salinas
San Francisco
San Jose

2) OVER THE PHONE INTERPRETING 
We will accept resumes from all qualified interpreters in the languages listed above. Interpreters must be available on an on call basis, to accept calls in a quiet, office environment.

Please follow this submission procedure 

exactly as explained below:

In the subject line of your email, write ONE of the following:
CERTIFIED IN PERSON & OPI- YOUR LANGUAGE - INT,  CITY or CITIES

OR 

CERTIFIED OR QUALFIED OPI - YOUR LANGUAGE - INT

For example, if you are a certified Spanish interpreter in person only, the subject would read:

CERTIFIED SPANISH INT, Bakersfield
or
CERTIFIED SPANISH INT, Berkeley, SF, Oakland

If you are a certified or non-certified interpreter anywhere in the US available for PHONE interpreting, the subject would read:

CERTIFIED (or QUALIFIED) OPI SPANISH - INT

For in person interpreting, we are seeking LOCAL interpreters when possible, so only list cities that are within normal driving distance for one day of travel.

Send your CV to careers [at] worldlanguagecommunications [dot] com

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