Posted on Jan 15, 2015
SFC Vernon McNabb
10.2K
23
11
4
4
0
OK, I'll bite. What exactly does a Human Intelligence Collector do? Is this a technical term for cyber-stalker? Just kidding, but seriously, what do you do?
Posted in these groups: Micrest IntelligenceExpertsights e1324327272686 MOS
Avatar feed
Responses: 9
SGT(P) Human Intelligence Collector
5
5
0
Our field manual is unclassified, if you would like to check it out. Congress made our FM unclassified in 2006 in response to the Abu Ghraib abuses (which were NOT conducted by Human Intelligence Collectors, I will point out! It was a reserve MP unit that did all that, if I remember correctly.).

https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/10492372-71C5-4DA5-8E6E-649C85E1A [login to see] 170771/2-22.3/toc.htm
(5)
Comment
(0)
SFC Vernon McNabb
SFC Vernon McNabb
10 y
Oh, I know it was an MP unit. I used to fly EPWs into AG all the time in OIF3.
(0)
Reply
(0)
Avatar small
CMSgt Senior Enlisted Leader
4
4
0
We tell you, but.....
:)
(4)
Comment
(0)
PO1 Lyndon Thomas
PO1 Lyndon Thomas
>1 y
Bbb972e0
Good one!
(0)
Reply
(0)
Avatar small
1LT Information Operations Officer
3
3
0
Edited 10 y ago
SFC Vernon McNabb

The short? Interrogation and Military Source Operations. You can check out FM 2-22.3.

Cyber guys are technical. HUMINT is the gritty. Capt Richard I P. put it most succinctly. HUMINTers talk to people and report on it. Their work is a lot like that of a journalist.
(3)
Comment
(0)
Avatar small

Join nearly 2 million former and current members of the US military, just like you.

close