


Assists in determining significance and reliability of incoming information. Receives and processes incoming reports and messages. Assists in establishing and maintaining systematic, cross-referenced intelligence records and files. Prepares all source intelligence products to support the combat commander. Supervises, performs, or coordinates, collection management, analysis, processing, and dissemination of strategic and tactical intelligence. Training for the 35Fs takes place over 16 weeks, 3 days at Fort Huachuca, AZ. But at this point I feel like I am not here anymore.' (Source: Bradley Manning Support Network) It makes my entire life feel like a bad dream that won't end. It is difficult to sleep and impossible to have conversations. 'I have a fear of getting caught and have gone to great lengths to conceal my disorder. It makes the most basic things in my life very difficult.' He said the only help that seems available is severe punishment. It is preventing me from developing as a person. It is haunting me more and more as I get older. I've been trying very, very hard to get rid of it. I've had signs of it for a very long time. Adkins was later demoted to Sergeant First Class Adkins had not share Manning's email with Captain Steven Lim, the Brigade S2, Military Intelligence Company Commander, until after Manning is arrested on May 29, 2010. The email included a picture of Manning dressed as a woman. The email explained how Manning's gender identity affected him, how it impacted Manning's ability to think. The above qualifications are interesting in light the pressure on the British government being to take up the case of Bradley Manning on the grounds that he is a UK citizen, and testimony given at Manning's Article 32 Pretrial Hearing that asserted that sometime in 2009, before being deployed to Iraq, Manning sent an email to Master Sergeant Adkins, who was the highest ranking officer in the T-SCIF where Manning worked. 35Fs may also set up field intelligence equipment or for a tactical local area network.ģ5Fs must be US citizens and possess "no psychiatric pathology." Although, they "may have history of a transient personality disorder." They can also volunteer for duty in an airborne unit, where their duties may include using photos or maps to prepare classified reports, battle damage assessments, and other kinds of information for command briefings. They are trained to read and interpret maps, electronically plot symbols, and consolidate intelligence data onto a situation map.ģ5Fs are also trained to run diagnostic checks on the Army's computer systems, and to transmit reports that they gather from multiple intelligence sources to strategic agencies by either electronically or hard copy.ģ5Fs can work at a fixed intelligence unit or a field unit battalion, such as psychological operations, artillery, or air defense. It should be noted, his alleged leak concerned information only marked at the lowest level of classification, "SECRET", or was not classified at all.įor example, on testimony by Army CID Agent, Toni Graham, at Bradley Manning's Article 32 Pretrial Hearing and similarly at the MaMotion Hearing for US v PFC Bradley Manning, there is still uncertainty as to whether or not the JBaghdad air strike video, commonly known as " Collateral Murder" was classified or not.ģ5Fs analyze data including weather, terrain, and the position of opposing forces. The United States Army and Marine Corps call their enlisted job specialties, "MOS's," or Military Occupation Specialties.īradley Manning was a 35F or 35 Fox, Military Intelligence Analyst, assigned to Company B, 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division Light Infantry (LI), when, the US Government says, he disclosed the largest leak of classified information in US History.Īccording to the US Army, the mission of the 35F Military Occupational Specialty is to "gather, analyze, and report intelligence information that reveals the intended secrets of hostile forces," and 35F "must qualify for a top secret clearance with special access eligibility."
