Hello, I was wondering if someone could give me a couple of 'day in the life of' kind of thing of MOS intel. Plus, not that it would bother me at all, but would I expect to be in combat situations with this MOS? Thanks a lot,
When your in Intel you could be with a Grunt Unit or a Support Unit or a Air Wing Unit. It all depends on the needs of the Marine Corps with your 1st enlistment. You might or might not get one of your 1st 3 choices of duty stations
Think about this, do you realy think that there is a lot of Intel Marines taking the risk for being killed or captured. With what they might know? Most Intel folks are assigned to a unit, you might have 2 in a unit. I was in a Harrier Squadron, we had 1 Intel Person most of the time and one of the Zero's was there OIC. Once in a we had two Intel guys at the same time. They came and went like the wind. I maybe the Gunny can jump in and put his 2 cents in about the Grunt world as I don't know how there Intel guys worked. By the way, the NCIS Charactor Jethro Gibbs as base on Gunny Irwin. He is smart....
I'm asking because I was looking for a job that involves combat slightly, but i'd still be interested in intel.. combat or no combat.
Intel primarily involves the gathering and analysis if information...combat involves locating, closing with and destroying. While the two career tracks may intersect at certain points (like with a lot of MOS' these days), they are not meant to because the jobs focus on different direct missions. That said, intel folks spend a LOT of time looking at computer screens, especially for those in a first-enlistment, so you can probably do the math from there on your chances of seeing any "combat." I suggest you pick one job or the other and concentrate on it instead of trying to get a "little bit" of this and that, which people seem very fond of trying to do. Enlistment is not a salad bar, where you get to pick small amounts of certain things you happen to like.
While you likely meant no harm, you might want to apologize for addressing a Gunnery Sergeant of Marines as "man." If you end up entering the Marine Corps., you'll find out soon enough that this is NOT the proper way to address somneone, so it'd be best to start practicing that right now.
JHGD Christ! WTF do you mean combat chances? You do know we are at war, right?
