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So, here is the question. Well, a statement and a question.
I scored a perfect score on the ASVAB, this gives me the option of taking any job I want. So far, nothing has come up from my security check, so odds are I'll pass that too. I also jsut took the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) and scored 119.
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Some background on the DLAB from About.com:
The DLAB consists of 126 multiple choice questions. Applicable service policies require that each candidate for attendance at the Defense Language Institute be a high school graduate. For admission to a Basic Language Program, the following minimum DLAB scores are required:
* 85 for a Category I language (Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish)
* 90 for a Category II language (German)
* 95 for a Category III language (Belorussian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, Slovak, Tagalog [Filipino], Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese)
* 100 for a Category IV language (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
Individual services or agencies may demand higher qualifying scores, at their discretion. For example, the Air Force and Marine Corps require a minimum score of 100 on the DLAB for all languages, although the Marine Corps will waiver it to a 90 for Cat I and II languages. The Air Force is not currently approving waivers.
The highest possible score on the DLAB is 176.
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Easily the hardest test I've taken in years. I qualify for all the languages, but not by much. This is tied to a job (known in the Navy as a rating) called Cryptology Technician Interpretive, a linguist. About 1300 people do the job, and it's essentially a snoopig job. I get information from news, listening into phone taps, reading newspapers etc. translate, and make a report to an Officer.
Seems pretty neat. I qualify, and it allows me to do something I've always wanted to do, learn a language.
All is fine and dandy, except that there is one other rating, Cryptology Technician Networking. This is a job, that definitely focuses on computers and networking and on the mundane side, it sounds like it's basically network security, except on top secret equipment. The caveat is that the job is so secretive that they can't actually tell you what you do for real, until your in school doing it. And then your not allowed to talk about it. The one person i know who even knew a CTN said she once asked about it, and was told she didn't have clearance, nor did she need to know. She outranked the CTN, and had top secret clearance herself. And the rating card (Sort of like a basic overview) had some funny language that suggested it involved some training doing the opposite of network security, if you get my drift.
So, I'm torn. Both seem like they're up my ally. But I just don't know which I'd be happier doing.
Questions, comments, suggestions?
I scored a perfect score on the ASVAB, this gives me the option of taking any job I want. So far, nothing has come up from my security check, so odds are I'll pass that too. I also jsut took the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) and scored 119.
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Some background on the DLAB from About.com:
The DLAB consists of 126 multiple choice questions. Applicable service policies require that each candidate for attendance at the Defense Language Institute be a high school graduate. For admission to a Basic Language Program, the following minimum DLAB scores are required:
* 85 for a Category I language (Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish)
* 90 for a Category II language (German)
* 95 for a Category III language (Belorussian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, Slovak, Tagalog [Filipino], Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese)
* 100 for a Category IV language (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
Individual services or agencies may demand higher qualifying scores, at their discretion. For example, the Air Force and Marine Corps require a minimum score of 100 on the DLAB for all languages, although the Marine Corps will waiver it to a 90 for Cat I and II languages. The Air Force is not currently approving waivers.
The highest possible score on the DLAB is 176.
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Easily the hardest test I've taken in years. I qualify for all the languages, but not by much. This is tied to a job (known in the Navy as a rating) called Cryptology Technician Interpretive, a linguist. About 1300 people do the job, and it's essentially a snoopig job. I get information from news, listening into phone taps, reading newspapers etc. translate, and make a report to an Officer.
Seems pretty neat. I qualify, and it allows me to do something I've always wanted to do, learn a language.
All is fine and dandy, except that there is one other rating, Cryptology Technician Networking. This is a job, that definitely focuses on computers and networking and on the mundane side, it sounds like it's basically network security, except on top secret equipment. The caveat is that the job is so secretive that they can't actually tell you what you do for real, until your in school doing it. And then your not allowed to talk about it. The one person i know who even knew a CTN said she once asked about it, and was told she didn't have clearance, nor did she need to know. She outranked the CTN, and had top secret clearance herself. And the rating card (Sort of like a basic overview) had some funny language that suggested it involved some training doing the opposite of network security, if you get my drift.
So, I'm torn. Both seem like they're up my ally. But I just don't know which I'd be happier doing.
Questions, comments, suggestions?