VII. The Army Military Intelligence (MI) Program

The Army's Military Intelligence (MI) is responsible for all intelligence gathered or learned during Army missions. MI Soldiers are always out front, providing essential intelligence and in many cases saving Soldiers' lives who are fighting on the front lines.

During your AIT you will learn the skills associated with gathering intelligence from different sources. Depending on your Army job, you will learn to collect intelligence from human subjects through interview or gather intelligence from digital sources like photographs taken from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

You will also learn how to prepare your intelligence findings and how to report them to your superiors and how the findings fit within larger missions

8013 will have a military speciality that will benefit him greatly. Only a handful of people are selected right out of basic. It may have to with manning the new detached companies and a total reorganization. Also, it is very unusual for the soldier does not have a commitment to the Army. He must be talking about a three year enlistment.

8013 probably has no idea of all of this. No doubt he will be assigned to a Special Operations unit. In the post WWII years there was a lot of discussion about expanding Special Ops. He is very young and has a history of being irresponsible. However, the fact that he complleted basic jump training with shining colors speaks well for him. There are rumors that he was selected for two reasons. They need trained personnel. 2. He scored high on the Military Intelligence Test when he entered the Army,