Cryptologic Linguist
The nation's defense depends on information from foreign language newspapers, magazines, radio broadcasts and other sources. Therefore, it's very important that some members of the Army be able to read and understand the many languages of the world.
The Cryptologic Linguist is primarily responsible for performing and supervising the detection, acquisition, geolocation, identification and exploitation of foreign communications using signals equipment. Some of your duties as a Cryptologic Linguist may include:
- Identify foreign communications from an assigned geographic area and categorizing signals by activity type
- Analyze foreign communication for information to support mission reporting requirements
- Recognize changes in transmission modes and tipping the appropriate analytical or intercept authority
- Provide translation expertise to analysts
- Operate systems as needed to support Signals Intelligence tasking, reporting and coordination
- Provide gists, transcriptions, or translations of foreign communications
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