JacksLibido posted:

Not intel but I've worked with them as part of my flying squadrons and at the CAOC. What does your friend want to know?

At the flying squadron level they're basically just helpers, almost like librarians. You give them a bunch of RFI's, they'll try to figure out what you mean since they don't know fuckall about flying or what the threat numbers mean in relation to flying, and will end up printing off the wrong stuff more often than not. They'll also give a weekly brief every now and then. Deployed they take your post mission reports and file them off to some place, and give pre-mission step briefs on known threat updates. Nothing cosmic or overly cool.

At the CAOC there's 2 types, the power tripping ISRC (ISARC? dunno, it's nerd poo poo anyways) who just assigns UAV orbits but sits with the CAOC director so they must be cool, and then the intel dudes behind the locked door. Again, the ISRC just assigns UAV orbits based off unit requests, which MAY sound cool to someone who doesn't know what that really means... but it really isn't since it's really just using an excel spreadsheet to prioritize requests. The dudes behind the locked door just take intel as it comes in and file it away into squirrel hole of nothingness, then bitch when you ask them to pull info out of said squirrel hole because YOU actually have to do something important. It's not like the movies, your friend isn't going to be a spy or kicking in doors and poo poo. He MIGHT fly on a plane or go outside the wire, but it'll always be as a bit of an afterthought and never an active fight. On the plane he'll just file the reports as poo poo happens, and outside the wire he'll be looking at the aftermath of a fight.