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Originally Posted by Solumina
Cryptologic Technician Interpretive, essentially he will be a linguist. He won't know what language they are going to teach him until he completes boot camp but he qualified for the top tier languages so it will be Mandarin, Korean, or Arabic.
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Oh, is that like a Defense Language Institute type deal? If I remember correctly, the stuff like Chinese and Korean is a good 18-24 month course. He'd pretty much be in school for a good while. Does he have any idea what his CONUS/OCONUS rotation will look like when he graduates from DLI?
Oh, I'm also curious: If his job is something like a linguist, does he still qualify for the extra pay for scoring high enough on the OPI? When I was learning Pashto, I read that it was something like an extra 300-1000 dollars a month for scoring just a 2. Err. To put that into perspective, I scored just underneath a 2 from only 3 months of studying the language when I went to school for it, so his proficientcy after he's done with the school would obviously be much higher. It might be something to look into!