A third interpreter served the Defense Department from 2008 to 2015. He left work in December following an IED attack which robbed him of one eye and his vision in the other. He applied for his special immigrant visa after being wounded and is in the beginning stages of the extensive interagency vetting process. Clearly. the service of these individuals has been critical to our successes in Afghanistan. and in at least a handful of other cases. SIV recipients commitment to the U.S. mission was so strong that they found ways to contribute even after they arrived in the United States.
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