![]() Officially there is no “Above Top Secret” clearance, however there a couple of categories that really are above a Top Secret clearance. Having the security clearance doesn’t get access to everything. We were all being processed for SI (Special Intelligence) clearances when I left that job. I had a Top Secret clearance when I was assigned to the Communications Center of US Army Europe Headquarters, but I had to be processed for Special Category (SPECAT) clearance before I could go into the center and go to work. The security classifications are Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret, and then there are probably 20 categories and special compartmentalization’s above Top Secret. Potential enemies, and some supposed friends, have vast complex organizations whose missions are to find our secrets, just as we have the CIA. Army Military Intelligence Analyst – MOS 35FĪmerica’s military secrets are classified and compartmentalized into sections that are only available to people who have a need to know that particular information. What is the enemy doing, where is the enemy and what is he planning? That is the job of the intelligence analyst. For a commander to make a decision to commit soldiers to combat, he has to have information about the enemy. Intercepted radio transmissions or cell phone conversations, prisoner of war interrogations, and news reports and many other sources, and puts it together to try to determine what an enemy or a terrorist cell is doing and what it is planning to do. So what does an Army Military Intelligence Analyst do? He or she collects information from all sources, aerial photos, satellite images, reports from human intelligence collectors, reports from the field. It requires a Top Secret security clearance, and in the words of some soldiers in that job, they get to see and do some really cool stuff. Military Intelligence – what image does that phrase create in your mind? Really smart people? Soldiers studying maps of enemy movements? James Bond or a Tom Clancy character? The Army has an enlisted MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) called Military Intelligence Analyst, MOS 35F. ![]() Use the report button.This was originally published in The Belle Banner, Belle, Missouri, February 20th 2019. Do not answer n00b questions on the main boards.
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