Threat Assessment

My mentorship with Staff Sergeant Felix this month has moved on from HUMINT to analyst work in military intelligence. what analyst do is take intel collected from imagery, human resources, and signal intel and put it into something usable. When a questioned is asked by a commanding officer that he wants an assessment on the country of Brazil you go into database, pull out intel collected and not just put puzzle pieces together but make the puzzle pieces then put the puzzle together. After analyzing the intel collected you make an assessment and present your findings to your commanding officer or whom ever asked the question.  Here is a template given to me on a assessment by my mentor:

Blog 6 Second Interview Preparation

1. Who is your mentor and where do they work?
Staff Sergeant Felix is my mentor for Military intelligence and he works at a recruiting center for the US Army.
2. What five questions will you ask them about their background?

• How exactly did you get into this field? 
• What was it like to serve the US Army abroad?
• How did you become a staff sergeant?
• What training did you undertake?   
• What standards must you meet to be in this field?

Blog 5- Mentorship Reflection

1. Mentorship question: Describe your experience in how you found your mentorship?  If you haven't found one yet, describe your experience so far in the search of a mentor.

My experience to find my mentor was nerve racking I could not find one for my topic on military intelligence. So on the last day of summer I was dropping my sister off at work. something just told me get out of the car and call the recruiting office and see if they could help me. I called and just so happened the person that answered was an intelligence officer.

 2. Research question: What has been your most important article you have read so far and why?

 The article I read on Hanns Schraff a German human intelligence collector for the Luftwaffe in WW II he used elicitation to interrogate  POW s the POW s did not even know they were being interrogated Hanns was just a good guy in the war. Hanns planned it all out, he learned all that he could about the POW before he talked with them using small talk he pieced everything that slipped their tongue and put together hard data. It helped learn new techniques that would be used in the branch of military intelligence which is human intelligence.