Skilled Sergeant

" List. Sergeant Kelly Carlin has a nighttime meeting with an Iraqi Army unit at camp matter in southeastern Iraq. This -- 25 year old from Houston explains tonight's game plan in Arabic."

" Sound like him so -- From home. -- setting with a friend and I think that Baghdad for about six months fattening grammar and reading writing on my pronunciation. Senator it would say it. --"

" The military has a shortage of Arabic speakers and Carmen qualified for army language programs in the mantle given that math. That she chose to learn Arabic on instead of sitting in language class she wanted the adventure of a truck driving."

" access heavy equipment transporter. Katz forty -- we get calls that -- 3 in the morning pick got down aircrafts down tanks in Vienna I hear any sad -- sometimes. -- wedding and need says this got."

" This deployment Carlin serves as a go between for joint US Iraqi patrols. And manages a staff of civilian interpreter is her -- dealing with male soldiers may be a byproduct of growing up with three Brothers in Texas. Her drive to excel goes far beyond language. She's a pathfinder part of an exclusive unit that sets up aircraft drop zones skydiving is a hobby. A certified fitness trainer she needs exercise classes on the base and she's also a champion ballroom dancer. Happily married to another soldier Sargent Carlin is now working to -- a college degree in French and Arabic. Languages are her passion but she says it's being a soldier that has changed her life."

" It is you're feeling of of right to know that in have to joint Arab media has come but you feel like you're actually doing some important working hard splitting. Kind of like. Educating your kids you know at camp matter Mooney Wilkes Fox News."