Would you go MI or AG (civil affairs office) for officer commissioning to utilize foreign language skills? Any tips on good units for both in DC, Virginia, Maryland?

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And be prepared to watch your back. MI eats their own. If an MI officer told me it was raining, I would physically get up and go outside to confirm, then try to figure out how it benefited him to bullshit me about it.

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How good are you with computers? SC would be good.

Honestly as an officer you’ll rarely use foreign language skills (obviously depending on the language).

Never saw any AG people even get close to using languages but I did work with a MI CPT that was fluent in Russian and she got to use her skills a decent amount.

Just my limited experience

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Yeah, is Russian and 2 more.

Intel - try to get a billet at Ft Meade and you could possibly find a way to use your language skills.

I know the CA unit that you would be talking about. It was in the same building as my old unit. Not many to any LTs running around and you would go directly into staff. AG means you push papers at the BN/BDE level, which can be good if you like that.

Lots of perks to MI (TS is dank) but the culture is kinda whack. The average person I have encountered got into MI thinking they would be doing NSA stuff. Mostly doing the weather from my experience in garrison.

The better question is: in what area do you want to improve yourself?

I was told that AG civil affair officers are attached to special forces units and travel around all the time- not sure how true that is. BN/BDE paperwork sounds actually more appealing to me.
If there is anything like it in the military, I see myself more in strategy and development/training operations

Deloitte 2 is 100% correct

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