09L

09L (pronounced "Oh Nine Lima") is a Military Occupational Specialty in the United States army involving translators/interpreters.

History
09L began in Feb 2003 as a pilot program for recruiting Arabic, Dari Persian, and Pashto speakers. It became an official Military Occupational Specialty in March 2006.

Current demand
The languages/dialects needed are:
 * Arabic-Modern Standard
 * Arabic-Gulf-Iraqi
 * Arabic-Egyptian
 * Arabic-Jordanian
 * Arabic-Syrian
 * Arabic-Lebanese
 * Arabic-Yemeni
 * Arabic-Sudanese
 * Arabic-Maghrebi
 * Arabic-Algerian
 * Arabic-Libyan
 * Arabic-Moroccan
 * Arabic-Tunisian
 * Pushtu/Pashto/Pachto
 * Pushtu-Afghan
 * Kurdish
 * Kurmanji Kurdish
 * Sorani Kurdish
 * Dari Persian
 * Iranian Persian

Currently, Army is just recruiting 09L who can speak Pashto, Dari & Persian languages, due to the end of operations in Iraq the Army has stopped recruiting Arabic speaking 09L.