reply to post by hotrodturbo7
I always thought CID was basically for inside military intelligence only. As in, they would be the kind of people who spy on the military people.
Like say a soldier is selling drugs and such to other soldiers, then CID might send in someone under cover to investigate it. Or, they might try to
use CID to get a soldier to give away secret information in exchange for cash etc. A 21 jump street kind of thing.
Some people would be suspected of being CID in your unit if they were abnormally nosy about things. Although I honestly never seen anything happen
of this nature, it was just what people would say.
But these things were always directed internally towards the military and policing the military, rather than being towards civilians. Unless of
course the civilian was on base.
That position sounds to me like it would be someone who would be a guard at a brig. People don't realize it, but the miltary actually has it's
own prison system, and yes they do have quite a few people who are confined into it. Especially in terms of people who are deserters(awol for more
than 28 days). And that happens all the time, I mean all the time.
And what makes me think that is that the police positions and such for the military were always directed towards the military, not towards
civilians.
But I do not really know, that is just a guess.