The intelligence community has grown so much and the Navy calls it cyber growth now.
 Linguists aren’t just interpreting and translating.
We’re also producing intelligence reports that are being disseminated out through various national agencies,
 with the potential to be seen by some high-level decision-making.
The primary role of a CTI is to be that regional and cultural expert for your target language.
We are considered the subject matter experts. 
Once you start to develop that cultural expertise, part of how we keep up our language skills is by
 listening to music, watching TV, going and visiting areas in a neighborhood where that language is predominately spoken.
You can find people that speak various languages but they may or may not be eligible for a security clearance,
 which is one of the reasons why CTIs consider ourselves so special.
We have that clearance and we have the ability to understand a foreign language.
I would tell you more but that's classified. 
