Hey everyone,
I'm a junior in NROTC, and have just found out that I'm gonna be going Restricted Line once I graduate/commission, since it was recently confirmed from my flight physical that I'm red-green color deficient. Before this, I had wanted to go Pilot/NFO simply because they seemed like the choices that, in my opinion, I would dislike the least (With SWO being my least wanted option, thank God it's Unrestricted Line)
However, given all this, I'm not that upset. I'm on an LREC Scholarship with a concentration on the Middle East/Arabic, which apparently are relatively rare in terms of all the Midshipmen nationally in the country. And, for what it's worth, I'm pretty good at Arabic for a white guy...although my colloquial accent and vocabulary still has a long way to go, I'm still more educated (grammatically and formally) than a number of Arabs I know here at school. So, going straight to a field like Intel once I would commission, without having to spend 4 as a SWO or something seems pretty nice to me.
So I'm asking, thoughts? Is Intel an alright career path? I really don't know the distinct differences between that and "Information Warfare" and "Information Professional" (wtf?). From what I've gleaned from some sources though (including a few topics here), it seems that as far as Intel goes, you can get assigned to different units (Spec Ops, Aviation Squadrons, etc). Also, with aviation squadrons, it's good to have a sense of humor and not take yourself too seriously...I would never want to overrate myself just because I'm an Intel Officer who speaks limited Arabic...I'm always gonna have to be improving myself and keeping an open mind. I'm not expecting to be doing some James Bond shit as an JO, unless the Bond man himself is really good at paperwork and other bottom-of-the-ladder minutia, lmao.
I'm a junior in NROTC, and have just found out that I'm gonna be going Restricted Line once I graduate/commission, since it was recently confirmed from my flight physical that I'm red-green color deficient. Before this, I had wanted to go Pilot/NFO simply because they seemed like the choices that, in my opinion, I would dislike the least (With SWO being my least wanted option, thank God it's Unrestricted Line)
However, given all this, I'm not that upset. I'm on an LREC Scholarship with a concentration on the Middle East/Arabic, which apparently are relatively rare in terms of all the Midshipmen nationally in the country. And, for what it's worth, I'm pretty good at Arabic for a white guy...although my colloquial accent and vocabulary still has a long way to go, I'm still more educated (grammatically and formally) than a number of Arabs I know here at school. So, going straight to a field like Intel once I would commission, without having to spend 4 as a SWO or something seems pretty nice to me.
So I'm asking, thoughts? Is Intel an alright career path? I really don't know the distinct differences between that and "Information Warfare" and "Information Professional" (wtf?). From what I've gleaned from some sources though (including a few topics here), it seems that as far as Intel goes, you can get assigned to different units (Spec Ops, Aviation Squadrons, etc). Also, with aviation squadrons, it's good to have a sense of humor and not take yourself too seriously...I would never want to overrate myself just because I'm an Intel Officer who speaks limited Arabic...I'm always gonna have to be improving myself and keeping an open mind. I'm not expecting to be doing some James Bond shit as an JO, unless the Bond man himself is really good at paperwork and other bottom-of-the-ladder minutia, lmao.