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Code or decode classified information. Track surface and inbound threats. Produce intelligence from raw data to detect enemy radar signals. Reservists in this field represent hundreds of skill sets and a wide range of careers. In civilian life, they are engineers, educators, IT professionals, CPAs, consultants, and more. Though your background and experience may differ from your fellow Sailors, you will all share a common goal - national security through information superiority. What’s more, you will all utilize and train on the most state-of-the-art electronic
equipment available.
Jobs in this field include:
- Cryptologic Technician - Administrative
- Cryptologic Technician - Collection
- Cryptologic Technician - Communications
- Cryptologic Technician - Interpretive
- Cryptologic Technician - Maintenance (Advanced Electronics Field)
- Cryptologic Technician - Technical
- Intelligence Specialist
As part of this occupational specialty, you could:
- Track surface and inbound targets
- Operate underwater communications equipment
- Defend ships against inbound threats, including antiship missiles
- Identify sounds produced by ships, torpedoes, submarines, sonar transmissions, marine life, and natural phenomenas
- Analyze intelligence information
- Function as a plotter by using radio-telephone and Command and Control sound-powered telephone talkers
- Maintain Combat Information Center (CIC) displays of strategic and tactical information
- Serve as Air Traffic Controllers for helicopters and fixed-wing supersonic jet aircraft
- Operate and maintain the Navy’s global satellite telecommunications systems
- Work with highly classified and technical material
- Provide technical support to deployed units
- Operate state-of-the-art electronic radio receivers
- Maintain personnel security files
- Operate state-of-the-art computer equipment
Advanced Training & Certification
Whether in the civilian world or in the Navy Reserve, the experience and responsibility you gain by securing a job in Intelligence and Communications is unrivaled. Individuals who serve in this community represent hundreds of skill sets and a wide range of civilian careers. Your training may be extensive, from performing search-and-rescue operations to learning highly technical database design and computer networking to decoding high-security information. The skills you acquire will equip you to thrive in countless jobs in the high-tech industry. You may also receive your national security clearance, which will make you an even more desirable candidate to many civilian employers.
You could earn Department of Labor certification allowing you to work as a computer programmer or radio station operator. Your training might also prepare you to be, or enhance your current career as, an intelligence specialist, photograph interpreter, electronics mechanic, data communications analyst, electronic intelligence operations specialist, computer systems hardware analyst, or an air traffic controller. Most of the on-the-job training in the Intelligence and Communications field directly translates to credit at colleges and universities.
To learn how you can pursue a job in Intelligence and Communications in the Navy Reserve, contact your local Navy Reserve Recruiter today.
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