I believe I am fully qualified to become an Army Warrant Officer for many reasons. The first is that I feel I have reached a rank that marks the culmination of my operational career. At this stage in the Army as a Staff Sergeant, I continually fulfill duty positions that are above and beyond my pay grade in both the garrison and deployed environments. This is best exemplified in my recent deployment with 1st Special Forces Group in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. As a Staff Sergeant, I served as the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Iraq (CJSOTF-I) Counterintelligence (CI) Coordinating Authority, which is doctrinally a Chief Warrant Officer Three billet. I established the foundation for future Special Operations Command Central
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Over the past nine years, I have been very fortunate to attend a variety of technical courses ranging from intelligence analysis, security programs, and CI/HUMINT. I am fortunate to have begun my career as an Intelligence Analyst as I have a greater understanding of the Intelligence Cycle, Military Decision Making Process, and honed my briefing skills in comparison to other CI Agents with a non-Military Intelligence background. I completed my Associates of Arts in Intelligence Operations through Cochise College within the first year of my Army enlistment. I sought to further enhance my knowledge as an intelligence professional through earning a Bachelors of Arts in International Relations concentrated in Comparative and Regional Politics. While attending American Military University, I was a member of the Sigma Iota Rho International Relations Honor Society member and actively participated in the Intelligence and Transnational Security Issues sub-committee. As a CI Agent, this degree has provided me with the ability to analyze regional or individual state foreign policy and its affects on U.S. National Security and U.S. Foreign Policy. However, my quest for knowledge did not cease. My ultimate goal is to give back to the Army through the art of leadership. I recently completed a Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership degree from Gonzaga University. This
Over the past nine years, I have been very fortunate to attend a variety of technical courses ranging from intelligence analysis, security programs, and CI/HUMINT. I am fortunate to have begun my career as an Intelligence Analyst as I have a greater understanding of the Intelligence Cycle, Military Decision Making Process, and honed my briefing skills in comparison to other CI Agents with a non-Military Intelligence background. I completed my Associates of Arts in Intelligence Operations through Cochise College within the first year of my Army enlistment. I sought to further enhance my knowledge as an intelligence professional through earning a Bachelors of Arts in International Relations concentrated in Comparative and Regional Politics. While attending American Military University, I was a member of the Sigma Iota Rho International Relations Honor Society member and actively participated in the Intelligence and Transnational Security Issues sub-committee. As a CI Agent, this degree has provided me with the ability to analyze regional or individual state foreign policy and its affects on U.S. National Security and U.S. Foreign Policy. However, my quest for knowledge did not cease. My ultimate goal is to give back to the Army through the art of leadership. I recently completed a Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership degree from Gonzaga University. This