May post

Finished up senior project this month. This included mentorship and the Final presentation for an hour. So even though it was coming down to the wire I continued to broaden my knowledge on military intelligence. So as everything winds down I can see how far I have really come with not just research but experience as a whole. After learning so much I know this is the field I would like to go into for my career. In my eyes senior project, for me was a huge success and a leap forward in the right direction for me.  

Blog 23 Senior project reflection

Title: Blog 23:  Senior Project Reflection
Label: Presentation
Directions: Please answer the following questions, and submit them to the blog.
Due Date: The day after your block presentation by 8:00 A.M.


(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
My reasearch because I talked for more than 40 mins.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC.     AE is what I would give myself.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC.   I would give myself an AE overall

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
My reasearch and my mentor ship.
(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?
Not procrastinate on everything I did.
(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.
SenioI I have an edge over my competition in military intelligence when I go into the field. By knowing more than them early on.

Blog 22: Mentorship

Content:

LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog

·     Contact Name and Mentorship Place

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why? I believe just the sharing and teaching me on the jobs a soldier would do in the intel field was important but also the execution and actual practice of these jobs greatly increased my chance at success in this field. 

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain. Mentorship has allowed me to apply all the research I did to the closest thing to the actual job. Being able to perform tasks at the mentorship gave me a first hand understanding of my EQ and lead to my ultimate answer to the EQ. 

*Please do not turn in your mentorship hours to the office.  After we collect the total list from all seniors, we will turn in one piece of paper with all hours for everybody.  It is counted as 50 hours of the 200 you need in order to graduate from I-Poly.  The 10 hours in the summer have already been added to your community service total.

Grading Criteria (May 13^th)

• 50 hours completed (50 from the academic year)

• LIA response (submitted to your blog)

• Essential question connection

Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

My EQ is what is the most important phase in completing the military intelligence's mission? My first answer is the processing phase because this is the phase where you decide what raw intel collected from the collection phase is useful to answer the requirement and completing the mission. My second answer is the most important phase is the directing phase because this is the most crucial phase where the MI soldier along with his platoon drafts the requirement and makes their plans for the rest of the cycle. If the requirement does not address the mission fully the mission will fail.  My third answer is the most important phase is the planning and supervising phase because this phase is always happening and the CO or commanding officer is the main soldier in this phase. The CO’s job in this phase is to supervise his troops on what they are working on, if they are doing their job write and if they are on the right track. Once the CO determines the situation he works with his men to draft a plan and he or she makes sure the men stick to that plan and do it in a timely fashion. My best answer to my essential question is the second answer which is the directing phase, due to the requirement being drafted in this phase the importance of this phase is than that of the first or third answers. Yes processing and planning and supervising are important but the directing phase sets the entire stage of the cycle

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

Research from my sources which are articles, manuals, books, and interviews. The process was read manuals, books, and articles talk to my mentor and people i interviewed for clarification.  

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?
Only problems i faced are errors on my part a lot of the time. Such as not fully grasping the meaning of a word and having to go back and change it to proper word usage according to that  meaning. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

The most significant sources in my research is my mentor staff sergeant Felix and the FM 34-52 manual Intelligence Interrogation. These are so important because my mentor helps and teaches me everything he can tell me and that 34-52 manual, it explains not just interrogation or any just one topic but explains to the reader Military Intelligence as a whole. 

April Post

This month i worked on a lot from independent component to Mentorship to community service. For independent component I did threat assessments and order of battles. Read up on my manuals to further enhance my understanding of military intelligence. With an emphasis on interrogation in human intelligence. I had learned in the march that i had only 25 hrs for community service so everyday of the week i have been volunteering at an after school program at an elementary from 1-6 so i should have my hours in no time. So that's what i have been doing this month. 

Independent Component 2

Blog 19:  Independent Component 2 

Content:  

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I Daniel John Bustamante, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31hours 30 mins of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
"National Portal of India." National Portal of India. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.
Central Intelligence Agency. Central Intelligence Agency, n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.
"Nazi Germany." HISTORY. N.p., 13 Apr. 2014. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.
"Nazi Germany." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2015.
c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
(d) Explain what you completed.   
 I completed threat assessments and an order of battle using MI techniques and the intel cycle. 
INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
I had to complete a threat assessment and order of battle. I used my skills learned from mentorship and research to complete the task. Each one if done correctly can take an exceedingly long time to complete. below are links to both the order of battle and the threat assessment.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR3fcPr8Co_ZW3FclLRVHAwKaRuI0v8fh02byS48AKo/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sMgb0gEtZjNq-IgotHXXHVhe6EJpuVqHt-pRLYGokAQ/edit?usp=sharing
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
It allowed me to see if a weak requirement is drafted and used the report or any work following will be also weak and unreliable and cause the failure of the mission. The independent component has opened my eyes to see the directing phase is the most important phase and not the processing phase as i had established before. Directing phase not only took me longer to complete but was the most decisive time during my independent component. 

March Post

Didn't do much with my mentor this month because he is on vacation. So I have been working on Independent component. For independent component i am working on threat assessments and order of battles both are common for intel troops to complete especially analysts. Analysts is what i am focusing on the most for my research and entire senior project as a whole. Hopefully my mentor is back soon so i can finish up my hours for mentorship.