Careers

Career Description

Intelligence comes in many forms from around the world, and often it's in a foreign language. As a Cryptologic Linguist, you become proficient in a language like Persian Farsi, Chinese, Russian, Pashtu, Japanese or Korean in order to receive, record, translate, evaluate and report your findings. Working in this field requires a security clearance so you won't be able to talk about what you do every day but know that your efforts go a long way in helping the Air Force fulfill its mission.

Career Tasks

• Operate voice communications equipment
• Conduct frequency search missions
• Assist in operation of direction-finding equipment, transcribe recorded voice communications signals and analyze transcripts of voice communications signals
• Most in this position will be assigned to overseas locations
• You're not required to know direct oral interpretation of spoken foreign language, English to foreign or foreign to English

Relevant Interests & Skills

• Intelligence
• Foreign Language

Training

After eight-and-a-half weeks of Basic Military Training, every Airman goes to technical training to learn their career. Here's the basic information about Cryptologic Linguist technical training:

School locations: Goodfellow AFB [TX], Monterey [CA]

Length of course: varies

College degree earned: Communications Applications Technology

College credits earned: varies