2. I currently have nine years of active service time in the Army. Of those nine years, three years were served as an Counterintelligence (CI) Agent. However, I am not new intelligence field. I originally enlisted in the Army as a 35F, Intelligence Analyst, which constitutes the majority of my enlisted career. As an Intelligence Analyst, I was fortunate to experience various facets of the MOS. While assigned to 4th BDE (ABN) 25th ID, I deployed to OEF 09-10 and worked for in the S2X for approximately four months. During this time, I supported both CI and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) personnel with Threat/Vulnerability Assessments and Source Validation. While working outside the BDE S2X, I continued to support CI and HUMINT personnel by producing …show more content…
Upon redeploying from OEF 09-10, I reenlisted for station of choice and choose the 24th MI BN, 66th MI BDE in Wiesbaden, Germany. After spending a year as the Training Room NCO, I served the remainder of my time as the 24th MI BN S2 NCOIC. During this assignment, I was responsible for two geographically located Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), the Dagger Complex in Darmstadt and one in Heidelberg. I also served as the security manager for the Battalion and established various databases for tracking personal, information, operations security, as well as scheduling period investigations for individual clearance holders. In addition, I attended various security management courses; two of note are the Special Security Officer’s Course and Operations Security Manager’s Course. At the end of 2012, I positioned the Heidelberg SCIF to be decertified by properly destroying all classified materials and moved sensitive intelligence property in accordance with AR 380-5. I also recertified the Dagger Facility SCIF for continued operations through National Security Agency standards of certification. Throughout my time as the S2 NCOIC, I maintained close and continuous contact with the local CI Field office, scheduling Threat Awareness and Reporting Briefs, incident reports regarding cleared personal on the blotter report, as well as conducted two on On-The-Job training prior to attending …show more content…
After graduating CISAC, I was assigned to 1st Special Forces Group (1SFG). While assigned to 1SFG, I have attended various career-enhancing courses such as the Advanced Counterintelligence Collections Course and the Joint HUMINT Analysis and Targeting Course. My time as an Intelligence Analyst served me well while deployed under Operation Inherent Resolve. After two months, I assumed the position as the Counterintelligence Coordinating Authority, a position billeted for a Chief Warrant Officer Three. I drafted all CI activities policies for Special Operations Forces in Iraq, which are still utilized today. While CI polices are considered management, I maintained my CI tactical proficiency but conducting CI interviews of Third Country Nationals, Preliminary Credibility Assessment Interviews, two CI Threat/Vulnerability Assessments, and liaised with Coalition Partners on screening and validating Iraqi SOF for advanced tactical training. I recently returned from a six month TDY in support of Special Warfare Planning at SOCPAC. I worked closely with the SOJ3X and SOJ2X integrating CI abilities in support of SOCPAC
Career Research Paper: Army National Guard. The Army National Guard is a whole new way to serve. It’s all about commitment to help communities in need. It’s a solid dedication to the country in war and in peace.
In all respect I've always had a fascination with becoming an F.B.I. agent. As my interest grow during my educational progression, I'm learning how my personal attributes with help me in my given field. First of is the size of my physical build, which I believe will help me with any possible altercation I my encounter. My positive attitude toward life will also be helpful. I also have a good decision making skills, with out letting let and kind of prejudice entering my mind. The reason I am so positive about this is I've had such a variety of friends. I've had friends of different races, ethnic background, and religious beliefs. I've also have a vary strong emotional barrier due to all the tragedy I've gone though in my life. I've lost three of my closet friends in the last four years. Through all those years I was the person who was strong to help my entire friends threw our losses. When I get into the field all the knowledge I've acquired in my education will in all intent be useless. How do I know this you ask? Several people I know in several justice fields have told me that the real education comes in the field. Their have several movies such as "The Siege", Silence of the Lambs" witch have inspired me to follow in this possible life style. The T.V. show cops is the most instamental to me, due to the way they always explain how to dissolve every encounter, and what would happen to the perpetrator. These movies and T.V. shows give a positive outlook on my possible life in handling these issues. I would not leave out the possibility of becoming a scout leader. The reason I think I could handle this job is because I've always had an attraction to teaching children. I have been babysitting children for seven years, for my next-door neighbors and my aunt. Any other person besides their parents or me could always never control the three boys next door. Then there are my two cousins who were both girls. I always loved watching children; I just get along with them so well. I believe I could make a difference in their lives.
The surroundings of Counterintelligence (CI) duties requires that CI Special Agents hold the highest levels of proficiency, maturity, moral values, and honorable intelligibility. All newly graduates from Counterintelligence Special Agent Course (CISAC) will be part of the Counterintelligence Probationary Program (CIPP) in the accordance with AR 381-20. The CIPP is an evaluation and mentoring program that allows Evaluating Agent (EA) to employ the CI Probationary Agent (PA) in a manner that allows growth in development. The PAs are retained in the 35L military occupational specialty upon completion of the CIPP. The real question that lingers in every PA’s mind is; how does the evaluation process take place?
The Army Human Resource System (AHRS) known as the Electronic Military Personnel Office or (eMILPO) is a web based multi-tiered application. It provides the Army Human Resource Community with a reliable mechanism for performing personnel actions and strength accountability. The System consolidates 43 Personnel Information Systems in one. This system provides visibility of the location, status, and skills of Soldiers in the United States Army. The primary users of this system are Human Resource Soldiers, Commanders, and First Sergeants. The primary features and functions of eMILPO include Personnel Services, Personnel Accounting, Reassignments, Promotions, Readiness, Workflows, System Services, PERSTEMPO, and DTAS.
... Valentine, G. J., Dewey G. I., Allentoff H. L., & Wesolowski M. A. (1988). Selection and assessment of special forces qualification course candidates: preliminary issues (ARI Research Note 88-37). Fort Benning, GA.
Earning the way into the Army’s Green Berets, a branch of the Army’s Special Forces, is no easy task. Being a part of a military service as prestigious as the Green Berets branch in the Special Forces is a great aspiration. The great leadership skills, intelligence, and overall drive it takes for a person to achieve this type of rank in the Armed Forces is something that are greatly admired in the United States. This elite group offers safety and security to the citizens of the United States and other countries with its unconventional warfare. The Green Berets is an elite career to aspire to because of the lasting knowledge it instills, the job satisfaction behind what this group works towards, and the unique opportunity that these select few get to experience.
In 1993, I joined the Army National Guard, as a Mechanic. Soon after enlistment, I realized Army life actually suited me; and, despite never having turned a wrench before, I turned out to be a pretty good mechanic. Through the years, I’ve worked hard in hopes that one day I would reach the top of the Army rank structure. Being promoted to the rank of Sergeant First Class was a major accomplishment. As a senior non-commissioned officer, I felt I had arrived and was perfectly content on retiring at this rank. That is until recently, when I realized the possibility existed that I could become a First Sergeant, the highest ranked non-commissioned officer in the company.
LT Pierce has served superbly as the Bde S4, which is a field grade officer position. He possesses the technical competency of a company grade Multifunctional Logistician by his innate ability to effectively adapt innovative solutions, to the unique shortfalls of this AOR. His achievements demonstrates an exceptional attention to detail during the procurement and distribution of 100 gals of class III, monthly; 50k cases of class VI, commemorating the US Independence Day, as he was a vital lead planner during this milestone event in over 25 years.
The Department of Safety and Homeland Security is requesting approval for out of state training in Huntsville, Alabama. Sergeant Michael Cummins has been requested to attend the FBI Hazardous Devices School Recertification Course at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Sergeant Cummins is requesting to utilize his unmarked state issued vehicle for traveling to and from the location to this training, allowing Sergeant Cummins to utilize his vehicle to transport the necessary equipment for training and for transportation through the training.
Webster’s dictionary defines the word profession as a type of job that requires special education, training, or skill. Many Soldiers would not consider the Army as a profession but a way of life. Some think the word profession belongs to everyday jobs like a plumber, mechanic, or doctor. Dr. Don M. Snider stated “the Army is a profession because of the expert work it produces, because the people in the Army develop themselves to be professionals, and because the Army certifies them as such” (Snider, D. M. 2008). In October 2010, the Secretary of the Army directed the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) to lead an Army wide assessment of the state of the Army Profession. We have been at war as a Country for over a decade and the Army wanted to know how to shape the future of the Army as a profession and the effects the past decade had on our profession.
Around mid-July 2012, I received notification of my selection to attend the CGSC resident course. My tentative report date to Fort Leavenworth Kansas was 4 January 2013 according to the Request for Orders (RFO) email that I received from my branch. Although I had high aspirations of attending CGSC, the timing of this move was not the way I had personally planned the next couple of years of my military career. I had just took command in May of 2012 of the Ranger Support Company (RSC) of 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, a position that I had worked very hard to obtain. Additional, I was preparing for a combat deployment as commander of the RSC. Having previously deploying twice with the 3rd Ranger Battalion in a staff position, this depl...
I feel very competent in leading at the squadron and group level, things around the tactical/operational level. Specifically employing and delivering lethal airpower to the enemy whenever and where ever our nation needs, but I am now realizing being the Michael Jordan of the B-1 is no longer what the Air Force or the military, as a whole, needs from me. I am now taking that leap into uncharted territory where being the best aviator will no longer enough to achieve or meet the needs of my superiors. My superiors are no longer at the lower echelons of leadership; they are senior leaders, both military and civilian. My mind and my knowledge are what the military is my greatest asset now. While there are several areas I need to focus on as
The very first Weapons Intelligence Teams began their initial training at Fort Gordon, GA. These teams consisted primarily of volunteers from all across the United States Army (Brittain, 2011). These first teams of personnel were mainly made up of linguists who performed in this function on their first rotation in the theater of operation in 2004. Most of the training they received was from former members of the British Weapons Intelligence Service teams that were able to implement the skills that they were taught in Northern Ireland during their clashes with the IRA (Brittain, 2011). After only two cycles of training at Fort Gordon, the course was then relocated to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD. Soldiers attending the course were trained at Aberdeen Proving Grounds for four years on a rotational basis before being relocated yet again to Fort Huachuca, AZ. (Brittain, 2011).
Army life can be very challenging and a life changing experience. It was very challenging and life changing for me. I was raised by my Grandparents they did everything for me so this was a wakeup call for me on life. An independent person was not I, so I had problems with the changes about to come. Army life is constantly demanding and constantly changing without notice. Although the travel was exciting, army life for me was very challenging because I had to learn to adapt to a new system, to share my life with other soldiers, and to give up many of the comforts of home.
The future is unknown but knowing what you want to try and accomplish and having dreams is a pivotal point in which I must decide on what I want to do upon retirement form the military. Having skills of a Soldier and those of a maintenance technician are skills and attributes that collate with the civilian sector. In this paper, I look to find what it is that I want to accomplish after retirement and my skill set that I bring to the civilian sector. My career plan will be to set realistic goals set around where I want to live and the job opportunities that are present in my area. Looking to the future has always been a strong point in which I have always planned but it was not until recently that I have had to really look at life after the military.