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I'm [INAUDIBLE]
And I'm a geospatial imagery intelligence
analyst in the Air Force.
I use imagery products to help commanders plan their
strategies.
I look at imagery.
And I look at a geospatial information.
And I pretty much get a lot of intelligence
products out of that.
So it can be anything from targeting to just working out
what a building actually does.
I'm AC Robert Cain.
I'm a geospatial imagery intelligence
analyst in the Air Force.
I'm 20 years old.
And I've joined and been in for about two years now.
It's, basically, yeah, we just look at the imagery.
And then we work out what's on the image, what they're doing,
where they're moving about, how many
there are kind of thing.
And we'll basically use that information to relay that on
to our commanders so they can make better decisions.
These goggles here are one of the tools that we can use.
It brings up your image.
It gives it to you in full 3D.
So once you're doing it, you can drop your points.
You can the right coordinates.
You can get everything that you need.
You need to have done your 12 maths to get in.
If you've got that and passed year 12 as well, then you
should definitely be able to get in.
After recruit training we do initial employment training.
And that's about 45 minutes from the Gold Coast in an Army
base up there.
It's pretty cool up there.
Weekends you get to go to Gold Coast and have some fun,
relax, and unwind.
But initial employment training is a bit tougher.
They also give you the basic skills you
need to do your job.
You get more specific training once you get
to your posted locality.
We had numerous people on course who literally had no
idea how to use the computer pretty much.
And they managed to get through quite well and are now
performing quite well.
Well, we got sent to Canberra, me and the other guys on my
recruit course.
So we were sitting in Canberra, waiting for our
security clearances to come through.
They go through every facet of your life and basically scope
out who you are sort of thing and just determine that you're
suitable for having the level of knowledge.
The top secret clearance basically gives me access to
any building, any information I require.
It is a lot of responsibility, yeah.
It's tough because you can't really go home and talk to
your mates about it or your girlfriend or whatever.
You have to go home.
It's like, yep, that's it.
Work is over.
It is very rewarding, actually.
I mean, on an unclassified level, just recently we did
the Victorian bush fires.
We did provide support for that.
So we're flying over in the P-3s, working out basically
where the fires are going.
And then post-fires, we're looking
basically destruction levels.
Yeah, quite often we are on either exercises or
deployments.
Even when you're not overseas sort of thing, you will be
based flying around Australia, going to a lot of different
and interesting places and meeting some good people.
Depending on where you get posted to, it depends on what
you're really going to be doing.
Where I'm posted to, I specialize in targeting.
If you go to 92 [? TIF, ?]
one of the other sections, you do more
reconnaissance type work.
Other sections do more strategic work.
And then you got full fighter support.
So supporting the F-18s, the F-111s.
Yeah, it's one of the few jobs you're actually telling
officers do this, do that.
You're briefing them, telling them what you want them to do.
And they pretty much have to do it.
It's pretty cool.
We don't get paid as much as the civilians do.
But with the benefits you get, it's definitely--
I reckon it's better.
You get free medical, dental, physio.
You get time off to go to the gym just to keep fit.
It's unique.
It's not like anything else you do.
You're not a clerk, just typing away.
It's just so broad, the stuff you look at.
I mean, you're doing anti-piracy one day and then
bush fires and that kind of thing.
It's like, what job gives you that sort of variety?
It's completely different.
I had no idea what to really expect when I joined up.
But I'd say it's definitely been worth it.