Extra Post

For the month of February being a shorter month I have not seen my mentor that much. So to make up for that I read the manuals given to me by my mentor to extend my knowledge further in the field. I am so lucky to have those manuals I being taught what men being trained to be in the intel branch are taught too. 

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
What is the most important phase in completing the Military intelligence's mission?
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most important phase is processing because this is the phase you analyze the intel and decide what intel can be used. If you pick the wrong intel you will fail to complete the requirement.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
The directing phase is the most important because without the requirement you cannot fulfill the needs of the CO and never even start the entire cycle.


4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
If a problem starts in the middle east a requirement must be drafted to answer the problem. If a answer is not above par the mission will fail.  There is only one reason this is such an important answer because if there is no question there is no intel process and lives will be lost this is so major. 
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

N, M. A G O. "FM 34-52 Intelligence Interrogation." FM 34-52 Intelligence Interrogation 2 (1992): 1-178. Sept. 1992. Web. 21 Aug. 2014.

Army, Department Of The. "Chapter 10." (2006): 1-384. FM 2-22.3 Human Intelligence Collector Operations. Department of Army, 6 Sept. 2006. Web. 4 Sept. 2014.

"Military." FMI 3-07.22 Appendix D Order of Battle Factors. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2014.

6.  What other source supports your answer?
My Mentor and my cousin in the marines.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

I think the independent Component helped me a lot and interview 3 to come up with this new answer. 

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.Same thing i did last time do threat assessments but also complete order of battle charts. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.Order of battle charts i very extensive and so are threat assessments so i will make time easy.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.It will allow me to know which phase is most important in the intel cycle.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Independent Component 1

·         LITERAL
(a) “I, Daniel John Bustamante, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31 hrs 35 mins of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component. 

Central Intelligence Agency. Central Intelligence Agency, n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2015.

"Indonesia." WHO. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Jan. 2015.

"Indonesia 2014 Crime and Safety Report: Jakarta." Indonesia 2014 Crime and Safety Report: Jakarta. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Jan. 2015.

"Iraq 2014 Crime and Safety Report: Baghdad." Iraq 2014 Crime and Safety Report: Baghdad. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2015.

"Iraq." : Governorates, Regions & Major Cities. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Jan. 2015.

"FRONTLINE/WORLD. Iraq." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 25 Jan. 2015.

(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.

·         (d) Explain what you completed.   

• I completed two threat Assessments one on Indonesia and the other on Baghdad, Iraq.  

·         INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work. 

•  It allowed me to gain experience in my main job I would do if I was an analyst in the Intel field. Threat assessments are very important and no false information can be given you must find the balance between your educated opinion and facts. Threat assessments can take a day weeks months it depends on the level of quality the assessment is at. Also I went by the Intel cycle which enhances the assessment but also makes the process longer.  Below is a link to my threat assessment. 
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPgb_Gt-5s5KyWxengGDySoOd5iXjvKvrsVBFbK_0W4/edit

·         APPLIED
How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 

• What I did differently in this scenario I had to make the requirement where usually I am served the requirement. It was extremely hard to draft the mission where I have had experience in only answering the question. My current EQ does not cover that part of MI it has made me think to draft a new EQ.  Also it made me see how important the collecting phase is in the Intel cycle I had to go back and collect more intel because I was not just collecting whatever but I was only collecting a little bit of intel which is more of processing phase. So I might change my answer to my EQ to collecting phase is the most important phase due to the ease it gave me when I collected a whole lot of intel and it enabled me to see multiple paths to answer the requirement not just one path.