![]() (一和二) You are already doing the best thing possible. The best thing of the whole job though was simply the fact that I learned Chinese. I really miss that additional bit of current events information. Like state department economic reports or reports on Russian mafia involvement with European oil companies. The thing I liked most though: During downtime (which there was a shit ton of) I could just browse the classified web and read about really cool shit happening all over the world. It was tedious, but it was also a sort of satisfying positive feedback loop. Looking back though, I do miss sitting rack sometimes. It was cool as shit, but it served no purpose except to justify large budget increases. In the two years after it was built, the ONLY times I ever saw it being used was when we had some senator or general come visit. Several tens of millions of dollars this thing cost. When I was there they built this really cool 3-d holographic projection thingy that mapped and tracked asset movements. There was one really cool thing that our underground facility in Hawaii had. But it was also interesting to see how the intel machine works (and it is WAY less cool and WAY less advanced than depicted on tv and movies). It got quite tedious when just 'sitting rack,' which is what we call the watch floor jobs where we wear headphones and translate real-time voice communications. The job had high points and low points like any other. If I'd listed Spanish as first choice, they would've just said 'fuck you' and picked among those three for me. I scored a 147/150 on the Defense Language Aptitude Battery, so that pretty much meant I was either getting Chinese, Arabic, or Korean. Follow us on Twitter or Like us on Facebook!įacebook Twitter Instagram Calendar Please check out our Rules and FAQs.Email us at Step-by-step guide to doing an AMA.See more on our comment removals policy here. ![]()
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