Welcome!

Welcome to the US Coast Guard Auxiliary Interpreter Website.

This is an official site for locating Volunteer Coast Guard Auxiliary Interpreters. You must be a member of Coast Guard Forces to have access to: 

Over 350 Volunteer Interpreters
46 Foreign Languages
40,000 Mission Hours Provided

Members of Coast Guard Forces (Active Duty, Reserve or CG Civilian) may access our protected pages from any uscg.mil Internet connection. If you desire to access the database from home or any server that is not part of the uscg.mil Internet connection, CG Forces may click here to request access for a logon ID and password. Just click on the "Search for Interpreter" menu selection in the upper left side of this page to get started once you have access via password or uscg.mil Internet connection.

Impressed?

The US Coast Guard Auxiliary Interpreter Corps is a Division of the USCG Auxiliary International Affairs Directorate. Interpreters are members of the USCG Auxiliary and offer their linguistic skills to the US Coast Guard and other agencies of the Department of Homeland Security.

The US Coast Guard Auxiliary Interpreter Corps has 2 Competency Levels:

• Level “A” Interpreter fluently reads, writes, speaks and understands a foreign language in addition to English.
   

• Level “B” Interpreter speaks and understands a foreign language in addition to English, but does not necessarily fluently read or write in any language.

Yes, 61% of our Volunteer Interpreters are Level “A” rated and 39% are Level “B” rated. Another interesting fact is that 46% of those Interpreters have prior military service. 

Interpreter Workshop Presentation (PDF) at NACON 2008 - Click Here

After Action Report from Alicja Power - CGC Dallas Deployment 2008 - Click Here

October 2008 Interpreter Newsletter - Click Here

December 2007 Interpreter Newsletter - Click Here

November 2007 Interpreter Newsletter - Click Here

Read About the Russian Linguist in Action - Click here.

USCG Auxiliary Interpreter serves on China Mission - Click Here

Members of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary Interpreter Corps measure up to the highest quality standards and already have provided over 30,000 mission hours, mainly in Coast Guard Operational Support.

Glossary of Nautical Terms - Translated from English to:

• Chinese - coming soon
• French - Click Here
• Italian - Click Here
• Japanese - coming soon
• Korean - coming soon
• Russian - Click Here
• Spanish - coming soon
• Vietnamese - coming soon