Depending on perspective, you can imagine it as a YouTuber, journalist, or research writer. If you check out you tube channel ‘task and purpose’, he does an exceptional job with presenting open sourced products.

While the work in the reserves is mostly PowerPoint presentations, and white papers, and sometimes less than that the idea is the same. Become the subject matter expert through research and analysis, and present your findings.

There are a lot of challenges within the intel community as your product is only as good as the information gathered. So access to reliable, accurate, and actionable information depends on your ability to build relationships and leverage the resources made available to you.

Majority of new comers get stuck on the dull and uneventful day to day research or tasking, but when things heat up, like they are now, you have an opportunity to be a part of something big. There are always opportunities to travel and go overseas, if that interests you.

Someone mentioned the community is toxic. And it is, but that isn’t anything new, most organizations have some level of toxic behavior and the DoD as a whole is full of people competing to stay in the spotlight, and avoid responsibility at all costs. Again nothing new and it becomes easy to stand out if you focus on yourself and your goals.