"We simply must develop a greater capacity for languages that reflect the demands of this century. No technology delivers this capability; it is a truly human skill that our forces must have to win, and that we must have to keep the peace.”
 -Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
 

Language and the Intelligence Profession

As the only linguist brigade in the U.S. Army inventory, the 300th Military Intelligence Brigade (Linguist) supports a variety of critical military intelligence tasks from the tactical battlefield to the strategic national intelligence agencies.  Soldiers in the brigade combine their unique language and military intelligence skills to support one of the following intelligence
disciplines:

• Human Intelligence Collector. These linguists supervise and conduct debriefings and interrogations in English and foreign languages, prepare and edit interrogation and intelligence information reports.  They perform translation and exploitation of captured enemy documents and open source foreign language publications.  Additionally, they conduct liaison in the foreign language with host-nation agencies.

• Voice Interceptor. These linguists perform and supervise detection, acquisition, location, identification and exploitation of foreign communications. They transcribe and translate foreign voice transmissions.

• Counterintelligence Agent. These linguists supervise and conduct CI surveys and investigations of individuals, organizations, and installations to detect, identify, assess, counter, exploit, and neutralize threats to national security.