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. 

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is your rank in the Us Navy?
2. What branch of the military are you in?
3. What is your job in that branch? 
4. Do you think the Intel cycle chat drafted by the us army is effective?
5. If so why do you think it is effective?
6. How much do you now about the us army intel process?
7. If not why is it not effective?
8. How is the intel cycle in your branch different? 
9. How is it similar? 
10. Which one do you prefer and why?
11. Do you believe the intel cycle in your branch is effective?
12. What is the most important phase in completing the Military intelligence's requirements?
13. What is the most important phase in completing the Military intelligence's requirements in your branch?
14. Do you think the Processing phase is the most important?why?
15. Do you think the planning and supervising phase is most important?why?
16. Do you think the mission and requirement phase is most important?why?
17. Do you think the intel branch is important to the us military?
18. What other phases do you think i should research in more detail?
19. Why should i look at these phases?
20. Any other info you would like to share or suggest for my EQ? 

Blog 17: Third Answer

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 mission is the most important because without the requirement you cannot fulfill the needs of the CO and never even start the entire cycle.

4. What is your third answer? The planning and supervising phase is the most important phase because without the CO constantly watching his men they will not stay on task and will fail to complete the requirement.


4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
There is really only one reason which is with leadership from the CO the men will not finish and fulfill the requirement. So a good real life example is when you work in a group and the leader is absent everyone does there own thing which leads to a bad grade. 
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 

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
This answer glorifies the officers and it should but the men under them and the officers both make the intelligence branch what it is today. 

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.