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What makes Navy Intel so highly regarded?
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I think his point that Navy Intel his highly regarded is reasonable; The public sees CDR James Bond, Michael from CW's Nikita, Magnum PI, Montel Williams* (Crypto I think, but usually referred to as "Intel"), the guy who wrote "How to Catch a Russian Spy", plus the WWII code-breaking victories mentioned, PLUS DCO Intel seems pretty darn competitive to get into.
Personally, my 3 or 4 data points with Navy Intel folks left me with the impression that actual Navy Intel was not what those folks thought it would be, but I do think there's some momentum in glamorizing Navy Intel in the public's eye as well.
*I'm not saying people do or do not say "I want to be like Montel Williams", but rather that his naval career seems to be referred to with an aura of mystery and respect.
Personally, my 3 or 4 data points with Navy Intel folks left me with the impression that actual Navy Intel was not what those folks thought it would be, but I do think there's some momentum in glamorizing Navy Intel in the public's eye as well.
*I'm not saying people do or do not say "I want to be like Montel Williams", but rather that his naval career seems to be referred to with an aura of mystery and respect.
Yep, as one of our resident intel guys has said, "it's more Janes than James Bond."
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For my NRD, we actually closed out our quota half way through the FY. Other NRDs... you might have recruiters start knocking on people's doors for prospects.
land, sea ,and air, underwater.....and space!!.....the NAVY has its feelers EVERYWHERE!! the other services are specialists in their own AOR's.....only the NAVY sees it ALL.
I think things may have changed since your time in the service. I've never seen anything particularly unusual, or even "special" about Naval Intelligence compared to the other services, and the title of this thread itself is laughable.
only if you are in a pond of D2O???.. as you also have to love Neutrons...
maybe a little.....back then only the russians were the bad guys...now the bad guys are everywhere....I had a few intel guys in my reserve unit and they were nice but "spooky" lots of facts on internal operations of almost all societies on earth,. very involved stuff. of course they came from sub base Bangor where they keep the boomers, so they were paranoid to start with. NAVAIR is pretty insulated from the real worlds of surface and subsurface....
Intel types are intel types. Their usefulness or uselessness has everything to do with the person wearing the uniform (or the civvies), and nothing to do with the uniform itself. Each service's intel component, and the IC's civilians, have brilliance and Big Bang Theory-esque clueless nerdery in equal measure. All else is high school and undergrad wannabes' wanking. Get a commission somewhere in the IC, and earn your credibility from the green-suiters you support. In the words of the Red Baron, "all else is rubbish."
This is a good post. I mostly agree with you. The problem with Intel (and RL in general) is they seem much less able to police themselves, mostly because they live in 1 of 1 jobs most of their career; also because they generally lack a community identity and try to meld into whatever career field they are assigned to at the time.
Would IntelOs be better off if they served their first 6 years in commands with loads of other IntelOs? Of course. But they are support...and it wouldn't make sense to structure the Navy around them.