Th3Viru5
Verified Military
Any tips or advice on how to make the most of Counterintelligence/HUMINT Analysis and Requirements cell (CHARC) experience as an analyst is greatly appreciated!
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CHARC Experience
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If you really like that life and there’s an NGSF group near you, I would suggest you get a job at group, put in a few more years, another deployment (if you can get one), and then apply to USAPAB.
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Shift your thinking from capitalize, ("take the chance to gain advantage from,") to extreme technical and tactical proficiency and usefulness. I'd keep your enthusiasm and motivation. You likely did not get "lucky" for this deployment. Everyday is a job interview.
Read everything, to include every Commander or Director's reading list you can find. Volunteer for anything that needs to be done. Don't talk about it. If you aren't sleeping, be strengthening your mind, your body, and your current expertise. Know everything about the streets where you're at and then expand to outlying locations. There is no such thing as a boring area when it comes to aquiring information.
When you are waiting for anything, instead of talking, consume relevant information. Memorize everything you see in appropriate circumstances.
In other environments, think, a small, approved, highly relevant paperback book, or do paper/pencil puzzles so you can do them fast. This keeps your mind occupied, and your mouth shut.
If you are proficient at a language, start another one. If you aren't, get language.
If you think this advice is too demanding or unreasonable for the time you have at the current tasking, adjust it by priorities. It's applicable anywhere.
Focus your enthusiasm and energy on these things, and you'll be prepared for the next experiences, or don't, and see what happens. You seem like an enthusiastic big thinker, hone those advantages.
Best of luck!
Read everything, to include every Commander or Director's reading list you can find. Volunteer for anything that needs to be done. Don't talk about it. If you aren't sleeping, be strengthening your mind, your body, and your current expertise. Know everything about the streets where you're at and then expand to outlying locations. There is no such thing as a boring area when it comes to aquiring information.
When you are waiting for anything, instead of talking, consume relevant information. Memorize everything you see in appropriate circumstances.
In other environments, think, a small, approved, highly relevant paperback book, or do paper/pencil puzzles so you can do them fast. This keeps your mind occupied, and your mouth shut.
If you are proficient at a language, start another one. If you aren't, get language.
If you think this advice is too demanding or unreasonable for the time you have at the current tasking, adjust it by priorities. It's applicable anywhere.
Focus your enthusiasm and energy on these things, and you'll be prepared for the next experiences, or don't, and see what happens. You seem like an enthusiastic big thinker, hone those advantages.
Best of luck!
Th3Viru5
Verified Military
I absolutely will be implementing these strategies. Some I‘ve already started, so this is great confirmation.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Do what you're there to do. Note that "what you're there to do" may or may not be "what you want to do." You're an intel person doing intel things. Concentrate on that. If you see something sexier and you want to go do that, make the change after you get home. Too many intel types see ops and want to go do that. If you want to do ops, switch jobs and come back in an ops capacity. In the meantime, do what you're there to do.
