One Anecdote Demonstrates The Amazing Responsibility Young Military Members Actually Have
Many thought it was likely an intercept from some automated high-tech system we don't even know about.
Well, it wasn't.
It was a junior enlisted, senior airman at the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing at Fort Meade, Md. who just happened to be doing his or her job that day.
The individual analyst being credited with the key discovery that alerted officials to a possible terrorist attack is a "cryptologic linguist" with the rank of senior airman who leads a team of electronic data analysts in one of the Air Force's premier signals intelligence units, Lt. Gen. Otto said. A senior airman in the
"Part of his job is just sifting through troves of data and determining what's relevant and then translating that data into useful information to our decision makers," Otto said.
Here's a little background: Senior airman is an E-4 rank (the top is 9). Although he's not named, you can get to this rank easily in 2-3 years. Not only is this young airman leading others, probably only at age 21 or 22, but he's learned and honed his Arabic language skills in the
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