Well,  I'm back from the field.  For the past two weeks I have been out training and testing for the Expert Infantrymans Badge.  Got it 8-).  Good thing too,  this was my last chance.  By the end of the year I will be training for an intelligence job,  which means I will never get the chance to try for the EIB again.

Congrats... never had a doubt you could do it...  :-*

Congrats on the EIB.

And once you're in intel, can you use all the things available from drones to satelites to work out where the beast hides between attacks so you can drop a few missiles on his head?

You bad.  Alright, cool!

AubanBird wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 5:24am:

Well,  I'm back from the field.  For the past two weeks I have been out training and testing for the Expert Infantrymans Badge.  Got it 8-).  Good thing too,  this was my last chance.  By the end of the year I will be training for an intelligence job,  which means I will never get the chance to try for the EIB again.

Congratulations!!

Well done, Sir! 

My son's will be happy to tell you the Military Intelligence is an oxymoron.

Jerry

Callico wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 10:15pm:

Well done, Sir!  My son's will be happy to tell you the Military Intelligence is an oxymoron. Jerry

so very true.
im reclassing to be a cryptolinguist.  i figure by the time i re-up for the nice bonus they give for crypto's, ill have 13 years in and might as well stay for twenty.  then i can retire and go work for the NSA and do the same job.  for more pay. :)

Congratualations!

    I just had to "google" the word cryptolinquist.  This is all I found.

    the question cannot be answered in the way you want it done. the job is Classified, requires a at minimum a Top Secret Clearance and you will NOT be able to get any information about the job in anything other than very vague general terms./

Linda_Howell wrote on Apr 24^th, 2012 at 10:46am:

Congratualations!     I just had to "google" the word cryptolinquist.  This is all I found.     the question cannot be answered in the way you want it done. the job is Classified, requires a at minimum a Top Secret Clearance and you will NOT be able to get any information about the job in anything other than very vague general terms./

Yep.  A lot of people call them spooks.

Congratulations!

I've heard "spooks" too. I like it.

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SWEETNESS! 
Things just keep getting better and better lately.  A month ago, I finaly got my contract for cryptolinguist finalized, after working on getting qualified for it for almost two years.  Last week I got my EIB.  Today I just found out that I made the promotion list.  By Monday I will pin sergeant :) 
On the sour side of things though,  I just found out that all the items I have been issued over the years that used to be considered expendable(gloves, shooting glasses, etc) have to be :( turned in soon.  I have habitually thrown such items away when they become destroyed beyond any hope of repair.  Dumb move.  Now I have to go buy them all, brand new and out of pocket.   ::)

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A month ago, I finaly got my contract for cryptolinguist finalized

Hmmm.  So I guess if you told me what a cryptolinquist does, you'd have to kill me then?   lol

I don't know you personally, but I am very proud of you.   :)

Linda_Howell wrote on Apr 25^th, 2012 at 6:22pm:

Quote: A month ago, I finaly got my contract for cryptolinguist finalized Hmmm.  So I guess if you told me what a cryptolinquist does, you'd have to kill me then?   lol I don't know you personally, but I am very proud of you.   :)

thank you!
providing a link is about all i can do so far as explaining the job.

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its all the details that are classified.  the job itself is really just like any other intelligence job.  they all have their own specific purposes and areas of expertise. 
how they get their job done and exactly what they do is, of course, classified.  ;)

Some great WWII books were written about this line of work, quite a few complex favorite stories from England.  Alan Turing comes to mind, also deciphering the code name and stealing the German's new radar system was great.


and then there was 007


The U.S. Navy decryption of Midway was huge, and info for the fantastic Leyte Bay battle, too.



A good line of heritage there.  Best of luck.

HMMMM!!  If you meet us in Charlotte, we may just have to drag it out of you.  Inquiring minds want to know, you know.

Just kidding.  Congrats are certainly in order.  I have a very large military family and am very proud of all of them.

Look forward to seeing you in Charlotte.

Louise

when i was in 7th grade, my math teacher showed me a simple cryptogram.  the letters in the alphabet had been rearranged and then used to write a sentence.  i started looking at a bible i had in order to break it.  since i saw some letters all the time, like the letter e, it didnt take long to break the code.  that got me thinking...  what if you rearranged all of the letters in the alphabet every time you wrote a single letter down?

i worked on a system of encoding letters until i finished it a year later.  i was quite upset when i showed it to my math teacher and he asked me where i had learned about the german enigma codes.  i had never heard of them.

things usually go that way.  every good idea was already thought of by somebody else. >:(

anyway, that is what got me started in cryptology and linguistics.  my ultimate goal is to tackle the Voynich Manuscript.