Air Force to FBI

[sporMP]

I want to be in the FBI when I get out of the Air Force will Security Forces or Signals Intelligence look good and I want to get a Degree In Criminal Justice and Im fluent in Spanish is there anything else I can do?

[Metallic4]

If you want to go the federal route, mil. intel. will look very good. Also, so will learning a foreign language. I would recommend against a CJ degree if you want to join the feds, they are a dime a dozen and the feds tend to like more diversified people. A degree in a science would be good.

[Sleuth]

Also, take accounting classes so you can follow the money.

[cecilVA]

Honestly, unless your career field is something that is VERY specialized, like Arabic Foreign Area Officer, I don't think one AFSC will be better than another one. There is no one thing that will put you over the edge with the Feeb, just lots of good things all together. Do very well in whatever your career field is, take on challenging leadership roles, keep up on your Spanish, get a Masters degree, stay out of trouble, etc. You need to have things that set you apart from the rest of the pack. If you go into Maintenance, which isn't at all tied to what the FBI does, and you are in command of lots of troops in a short time, do some deployments, win an award here and there, get some good experience, then you should have some good stuff to show the FBI hiring panel. Don't forget the FBI, and other alphabet soup agencies, hire lots of civilians that don't have any LE/military experience but have lots of experience in other areas. Engineers, entrepreneurs, corporate managers, teachers, etc. As far a degree goes, CJ degrees are very common but go for what interests you and not what looks good on a resume. I did the latter and still regret it.

[tunlrat]

Ah the CJ syndrome. If all you want to do is local LE (e.g. police depts, corrections, probation/parole), CJ is fine, then again ANY bachelor's degree is fine. However, if you have Fed aspirations, I would save your $$ & major in something else. The CJ curriculum is just too "general" & the Feds look for "specialists" like linguists, accountants, computer jocks (or nerds), etc.,etc. Doesn't matter if you graduated at the top tier of your class, I think the Feds would rather hire the Information Systems grad with the 3.0 GPA than the CJ grad who finished Summa *** Laude (4.0 GPA). (Okay, I didn't grad Summa but I'm still biased!)

Just my 2 cents...