U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer?

I will be doing AFROTC. i am changing my major to geography soon with a concentration in geographic information systems (GIS). Right now I just want to graduate and commission. serve my country and provide for future wife and kids and just enjoy life. A future unconfirmed goal of mine is to land a job with the CIA.



So, my questions are:

1. Is this a competitive field with preferred majors?

2. How do you get selected?

3. Is this a good AFSC to have? (Pros?/Cons?)

4. If you had the opportunity, would you choose this AFSC over any others?U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer?
1- Geography is good to have for MOST, not all, Intel jobs. Probably need a language or two as well, preferably Arabic, Turkic, or Chinese/Korean.

2- You apply for non-rated career fields and rank-order the ones you want. If your criteria meet what they're looking for-you're in. This is where the languages will help you.

3- Depends. Intel can be very interesting if you're developing Requests for Information (RFIs) working collection stuff etc. Intel can be dull as dust if all you're doing is the weekly current intel brief for, well guys like me.

4- No, but then I joined to fly.

Military intel experience is critical to have for NSA, DIA and CIA intelligence analyst jobs. Contrary to public opinion and Hollyweird, and apparently someone who applied but didn't get accepted-and believes the baloney served up by the media: the CIA's mostly composed of tech geeks and intel analysts. The James-Bond types are a smaller directorate.U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer?
Studying GIS will get you many jobs in the private sector. You need to pass security clearances for any military intelligence jobs and not have bad credit or be related to bin Laden. Any intelligence job is a great career and unless you're field intelligence, you won't get blown up by IED's. It also works your brain, but there are rather excruciatingly mundane intelligence jobs where you sit all day at a computer analyzing endless streams of data whether photos or communications. I consider military intelligence better than the CIA except for military interogators who are generally a holes. CIA will take your soul, cr** in it, eat it, sh** it out, burn it, cr** on it again, eat it again, vomit it out, then shove it up your a**. They have a horrific history of corruption and criminal activity and war crimes including targeting civilians as well as US citizens. Working for them is like working for a child sex offender and trying to convince yourself that over time you can convince the sex offender to try adults instead of kids. The CIA is the CIA is the CIA is the CIA. You're better off going to the NSA or staying with military intelligence. Serve your country by doing military intelligence. When you work for the CIA, all you're serving are the fat, corrupt, delusional, twisted bureaucrats above you who are just looking out for their own jobs and may be working for the Russians or Chinese themselves.
I'm also in AFROTC, my two top AFSC choices were Intel and LRS (I got LRS!).



According to a friend of mine who is an Intel officer, science majors are preferred (chemistry, biology, etc). You would think a political science degree (like I have, haha) would be good, but apparently they look for science/technical. I don't know about geography. Check with your NCOs. They have a list of preferred majors for different career fields.



You get selected by having great grades and AFOQT scores, excellent PFA scores, and good commander's and FT ranking. Having a critical language (Arabic, Farsi, Mandarin, Russian... there are a few more) doesn't hurt, but isn't necessary.



There are several different Intel tracks. One that comes to mind for yours is... well, I can't remember the exact name, but it has to do with observing topography and testing soil samples for intelligence purposes. You also have HUMINT (human intel) which is the most competetive. A lot of intel is sitting in offices figuring out which of the boatlods of info you have is important, briefing the commander, etc. If that appeals to you, go for it. Not all of it is going around interviewing people, spying, etc.



I wouldn't mind having Intel, but I'm happy in LRS. I like to get out and about, so unless I got the excat intel track I want (Intel) I don't think I'd feel very fulfilled.