People think of linguists as merely translators a lot of the times, but there's so many other things that we're capable of. When you roll into a town with a unit, they'll have their regular civilian interpreter and they'll go up talk with the village elder's house and the platoon leader starts talking to them.

[Translated dialog] Do you think the Soldiers know about our shop? Don't talk about that here. They don't speak our language. [End Translated dialog] So I went and pulled my commander aside and let him know what I had overheard. And we discovered this spider hole hidden underneath a couch. And they have just loads of weapons and maps and bomb making material and surveillance footage.