After DLI, do 35Ms go to Goodfellow AFB or is that just 35P?

Thanks! I wasn't aware (until looking into it now) that 35P goes to DLI first, then AIT.

Yup. Honestly though, you don’t want to be a 35P. It’s probably the most poorly utilized MOS in the Army.
If you really have a hankering to take a try at DLI, I get it. (PT on the beach is...awesome). But go 35N. It’s a vastly more useful job, and then after a few years, take a crack at language school.

Best of luck

Keep in mind that a 35P can do the job on a 35N if need be but not the other way around

Nope, not really. They can try really hard, though.
One of the most unfortunate sights is seeing a papa on deployment trying to do sigint.

Again, 35P is probably the most poorly utilized MOS in the Army. The Army spends all the time and money training joes up on languages, but after they get to their units, they rarely use their language, or are given enough time to maintain it. Furthermore, while deployed, when any real language skills are needed, the Army usually isn’t going to rely on a soldier with a 3/3 DLPT.
There’s a reason why CAT IIIs get paid big bucks.

So while they’re doing the language work, the papas often get pushed over to backfill sigint because there really aren’t enough Novembers to go around. But more often than not, because the papas don’t have the proper training or enough of it, they just kinda get in the way. (Most papas aren’t too dumb. At all. But they usually only know just enough about sigint to ask a lot of questions and create problems).

A language-qualified 35N is much more valuable to the Army than a 35P.

Thank you! I wasn't aware that 35P goes to DLI before AIT, which is what I was basing my question on.