USAF

Special Duty Summary.  Collects and reports intelligence information obtained from human sources in response to requirements.  Screens documents and open source materials to identify potential source leads.  Assesses, debriefs, and interrogates sources in English and in foreign languages.  Translates written material, and interprets conversation from one language to another.  Performs controlled operations officer duties.  Supervises interviews, debriefings, and interrogations conducted in foreign languages. 

Duties and Responsibilities:
Collects intelligence information.  Screens documents and open source materials to identify source leads.  Contacts and assesses leads to determine value and validity of source information.  Conducts in-depth debriefings or interrogations under conditions ranging from peacetime through major conflict.  Performs controlled operations officer duties.  Responds to intelligence community requirements.  Prepares Intelligence Information Reports (IIRs) and summaries from collected data citing specific requirements.  Practices and applies appropriate security controls.

Translates written material from one language to another, and captures the intent of idiomatic expressions.  Screens foreign language materials for information of intelligence value.  Acts as interpreter in order to convey meaning of conversations.

Publishes knowledge level briefs, notices of intelligence potential, and requests for requirements to alert the intelligence community on source availability and information.  Assembles resulting source-directed requirements and performs in-depth debriefings.  Appropriately distributes collected intelligence via IIRs to consumers.

Maintains familiarity with validated requirements and applies them to screenings, assessments, debriefings, and interrogations; and to any documents resulting from these activities.  Develops continuity book or database on current requirements.  Works developed sources within the guidance of the collection management system.  Acts as an open channel of communication between the collector and the consumer to ensure requirements are satisfied.

Debriefs United States and foreign sources for intelligence information.  Interrogates prisoners of war, enemy deserters, and civilian detainees.  Complies with established laws and policies during the interviews or interrogations.  Screens potential sources by examining biographical records and personal documents; and by assessing subject's demeanor, grade, and apparent status.  Evaluates source reliability and makes pertinent IIR field comments.

Special Duty Qualifications:
Knowledge.  Knowledge is mandatory of:  domestic and foreign aircraft and weapons systems, military organizations, maps, signs and symbols; techniques of interviewing, debriefing, and interrogating to obtain intelligence information, scientific detail; personality characteristics, traits, and habits of people of a designated geographical area; Air Force intelligence report writing and disseminating procedures and methods; security directives; and practices for handling, disseminating and safeguarding military and political data; word processing software and effective report writing.

Education.  For entry into this SDI:
Completion of high school or general educational development equivalency is mandatory.
Completion of courses in effective writing, and speech, is desirable.
Completion of college-level courses in English is desirable.

Training.  The following training is mandatory for retention of this SDI:
Completion of the Defense Strategic Debriefing Course (DSDC) and the Modular Intelligence Training Course (MITC); or
Completion of DSDC and one of the initial skills AFSC awarding intelligence courses (1N).

Experience.  Not used.

Other.  The following are mandatory as indicated:  For entry, award, and retention of this SDI, ability to listen, read, and speak a foreign language at the L2/R2/S2 level, as measured by the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT).  For award and retention of SDI 8D000, ability to type 35 words per minute (wpm).  SDI requires routine access to Secret material or similar environment.  For entry award and retention of this SDI, completion of a current National Agency Check, Local Agency Checks and Credit (NACLC) according to AFI 31-501, Personnel Security Program Management.  NOTE:  Award of this SDI without a final SSBI is authorized provided an interim SSBI has been granted according to AFI 31-501.

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