exNavyOffRec
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Thanks! That's helpful - I'm going through their FB page now to look over all the info. There's some mentions of Cryptology (like you mentioned the name is now Crypto) which is what I was hoping to do. I know to be an actual linguistic cryptologist you have to be enlisted rather than officer, which is why my recruiter suggested aiming for and IWC position since then I might have more of a chance to actually use my language skills (my major in undergrad was my language and I went to grad school where courses were taught using the language) rather than start over with completely new training and essentially erase the last 5 years of everything I've learned. Would I be correct to assume your suggestion would be aim more for FAO?
I know Nuke officers that have used language skills more than Crypto officers, in fact most Crypto officers I put in didn't speak any foreign language, one has been in 4 years and hasn't left the US, you have a better chance using your language skills ordering at some exotic restaurant than as a Crypto officer. If you want to use your language skills then go enlisted.
FAO is a designator that you lateral transfer in to after serving as an officer for a specified amount of time, do a search for FAO and read the thread, several FAO's have posted on that thread.