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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 23 > Lost in translation: Many interpreters are unfit, literally, for duty

Lost in translation: Many interpreters are unfit, literally, for duty

By Jason Straziuso / The Bulletin
July 23, 2009

NAWA, Afghanistan — Josh Habib lay in a dirt field, gasping for air. Two days of hiking with Marines through southern Afghanistan’s 115-degree heat had exhausted him. This was not what he signed up for.

Habib is not a Marine. He is 53, an engineer from California hired by a....

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