Army Linguist, Human Intelligence Collector (35M)

Job Description:
Having access to the correct information is absolutely necessary to plan for our national defense. Intelligence specialists, such as the Human Intelligence Collector(HUMINT), are integral to providing Army personnel with information about enemy forces and potential battle areas. Intelligence specialists use aerial photographs, electronic monitoring and human observation in order to gather and study information that's required to design defense plans and tactics. The Human Intelligence Collector is primarily responsible for supervising and conducting information collection operations.

Requirements:
Helpful skills include:
An interest in reading maps and charts
- An interest in gathering information and studying its meaning
- An ability to organize information
- An ability to think and write clearly
- Fluency in any of the following languages:
- Arabic
- Korean
- Persian-Afghan (Dari)
- Persian-Iranian (Farsi)
- Pushtu/Pashto/Pachto
- Pushtu-Afghan
- Spanish
- Chinese-Mandarin
- Indonesian
- Russian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Tagalog

Training:
Job training for a Human Intelligence Collector consists of nine weeks of Basic Training, where you'll learn basic Soldiering skills, and seventeen weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT), including practice in intelligence gathering. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field. Some of the skills you'll learn are:
- Screenings, Debriefings, and Interrogations
- Preparing maps and charts
- Conducting HUMINT analysis
- Preparing intelligence reports
- Using computer systems

Duties may include:
- Assisting in the screening of HUMINT sources and documents
- Conducting debriefings and interrogations of HUMINT sources in English and foreign languages
- Translating written foreign material and captured documents into English
- Preparing and editing appropriate intelligence and administrative reports
- Utilizing CI/HUMINT reporting and communications equipment

Advanced Duties
As an advanced level Human Intelligence Collector, you may also be involved in:
- Reviewing and editing translations of foreign documents and materials for accuracy and completeness
- Performing difficult interrogations and translations
- Screening, assessing and debriefing (in foreign languages) refugees and defectors
- Debriefing U.S. prisoner-of-war returnees and other friendly sources to obtain information for military intelligence
- Conducting liaison in foreign language with host nation agencies
- Interpreting foreign languages into English

Benefits:
You may qualify for both an enlistment bonus up to $40,000 and the Montgomery GI Bill with Army College Fund worth up to $72,900. Or, you could get up to $65,000 to pay back qualifying student loans through the Army Loan Repayment Program, plus the enlistment bonus of up to $40,000. College credits may also qualify you for advanced promotion, and the extra pay that comes as a result. As an Army linguist, you could earn up to $1,000 per month extra, if you qualify for Foreign Language Proficiency Pay in multiple languages. Along with many other valuable benefits, you’ll earn no- or low-cost health care. Life insurance is also available.

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