Posted on 07/16/2024 7:45:30 AM PDT by george76
If you ask most people about the role of the Secret Service, they would say it protects the president and presidential candidates. However, the Secret Service now has various other functions unrelated to presidential protection, raising the question of whether guarding the president should be an “also.”
Additionally, the president used to be guarded by big, strong men. Why is it wrong to consider that men and women have different skills and sizes, and perhaps guarding the president should remain the domain of big, strong men?
The “Our Protective Mission” section of the Secret Service website explains that its original mission of presidential protection was approved by Congress in 1906. However, the current mission is much broader, stating: “One Integrated Mission, Protect our nation’s leaders and financial infrastructure.” It outlines four mission areas:
National Security: Protect world leaders, major events, and key locations.
Public Safety: Share threat assessment expertise for public safety.
Economic Safeguard: Protect the integrity of U.S. currency.
Cyber Investigations: Fight cybercrime to safeguard America’s financial infrastructure.
Mission creep could be one reason the Secret Service has struggled with its original mission, leading to numerous failures. This includes two dead presidents, one dead presidential candidate, and attempted assassinations on six U.S. presidents, two of whom were shot.
Additionally, attempted assassinations on presidential candidates have resulted in three being shot. Guarding the president and presidential candidates should be a priority, not a brief mention in the mission statement.
Following the failed assassination attempt on President Trump, widely circulated videos demonstrated the apparent ineptitude of female Secret Service agents.
This prompted Valentina Gomez, who is seeking the GOP nomination for Missouri Secretary of State, to comment on X, “My security detail is all men. Tier 1 operators and SEAL Team Six are all men. These women are diversity hires by the SS.”
The United States Secret Service has an Affirmative Action and a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Program, which covers, among other things, “sex (including pregnancy).”
This means a pregnant woman theoretically cannot be barred from being hired or from guarding the president. Currently, nearly 25% of agents are female.
However, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, a former employee of PepsiCo, has expressed her goal to increase the percentage of female agents to 30% by the end of the decade.
They claim that affirmative action does not mean passing over qualified candidates to meet quotas, but that is a mathematical fallacy. If agents were hired based on quality and qualifications alone, no specific diversity goal could be set or reached.
Moreover, physical standards for women are lower than for men, making female agents generally weaker and smaller. For example, the U.S. Army’s physical fitness standards for men aged 22-26 require 71 pushups, 80 sit-ups, and a 2-mile run in 13 minutes for a maximum score.
Women in the same age bracket need only 46 pushups, 80 sit-ups, and a 2-mile run in 15:36. For an excellent rating on the Secret Service fitness test, men aged 20-29 must complete 11 chin-ups, while women need only four.
In 2021, the 387th class of agents graduated, marking the first-time women trainees outnumbered men. It seems statistically unlikely that in 2021, the average man became weaker.
Until 1971, all Secret Service agents were male and had to meet height and weight standards. Today, there are no such requirements. The height requirement ensured that agents were the same height or taller than most presidents, making them more effective shields.
In photos from the attempted assassination of President Trump, a female agent, about five foot five, is shown trying to protect Trump with her smaller body.
These female agents were much shorter than Trump, who is reported to be six foot three, and smaller than the male agents, who were closer to Trump’s height. The female agents only reached Trump’s chest, effectively protecting his abdomen, which was already covered by a bulletproof vest.
Some of the video footage shows a female Secret Service agent awkwardly attempting to holster her weapon and then giving up. This is likely due to a combination of a lack of training and the interference of a protective vest.
Bulletproof vests are the same thickness for both women and men, but women’s shorter arms make it harder for them to draw or holster their weapons as easily as men with longer arms.
Mobility issues with female agents are another concern. The weight of a protective vest, weapon, ammunition, communication equipment, and other gear is essentially the same for both men and women.
However, this weight represents a larger percentage of a woman’s body weight, making it harder for her to move quickly or maintain stamina. Combined with lower physical fitness and strength requirements, this seems to create a prescription for ineffectiveness.
Conservatives are criticizing DEI and blaming female agents, arguing that big, strong men should be guarding the president. However, under the rules of woke, has anyone considered if any of these women identify as a big, strong man? That would be a loophole.
From what I saw during the failed assassination, it looked like the female agents were mostly clustered around the escape vehicle. I expect it to remain that way, because what sort of sick person would actually seriously expect a woman to jump in front a bullet to save the president? I don’t think even most liberals are quite THAT unhinged.
How can a five foot woman physically protect a six foot five man?
There are just some jobs women should not hold (Mainly due to body strength and psyche):
Combat arms
SS protection
Line Police officer
Fireman
For starters...
Flame away.
Crooks was a tactical genius who out smarted them all.
He has to be ..for the simple NONE of them did anything wrong
Case closed .
Yes, because having a 5’5” woman guard 6’3” Donald Trump was such a great idea.
The one woman agent next to PDJT was stooping lower protecting herself from the shooter in the pictures I saw, instead of standing straight up to cover the president as much as possible.
Crooks was a tactical genius who out smarted them all.
He has to be ..for the simple reason NONE of them did anything wrong
Case closed .
Originally, the Secret Service was formed to combat counterfeiting.
Likewise in the woke military.
I want a mean SOB who can choke an enemy to death after smashing his body to the ground and then carry my wounded body out of the line of fire.
I want a crew chief who can lift a 100 pound wheel to put on my plane and get it airborne before the enemy missiles hit.
I want a sailor who can pick up a Sidewinder with another giant and then pull me out of the water after my boat was sunk.
I want that woman at home doing the hardest job in the world taking care of the kids should I not make it back.
And I want that metrosexual male in uniform pulling his share of the patriotic load instead of some girl even though she has better patriotism and dedication than pajama boy.
Apparently, with all the poor SS/local communication~ protection, the hand of God was needed!
Thank you Lord and the good people trying to protect President Trump!:
https://x.com/moment_mirthful/status/1813204221098918067
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSjtfMYacAATdTj?format=jpg&name=medium
https://x.com/Michael_Yon/status/1813056780790034838
Democrat Biden’s tax-paid US Secret Service agency has gone far left
<><>has an Affirmative Action program
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This means a pregnant woman theoretically cannot be barred from being hired or from guarding the president or presidential candidates.
Currently, nearly 25% of Biden S/S agents are female.
Biden appointee, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, a former employee of PepsiCo (maker of Cheetos), has expressed her far-left goal to increase the percentage of female agents to 30% by the end of the decade.
This is not the fault of the women—if you are 5 foot 5 you cannot magically become 6 foot 4.
It is the fault of SS leadership.
Water tower 90ft tall, 100yrds East of assassin.
No over watch?
That vantage point easily covers the area
Why is no one talking about this?
“Crooks” seems to be an apt name for the “Croaked” assassin....
The article is wrong on the mission creep aspect. Protecting the nations currency was the original mission of the Secret Service. Protection of presidents and other VIPs was added at a later time.
And, once again, that takes us back to the issue of the 19th amandment.
Mission Sleep!
A Compromised Secret Service
A military assessment of security WRT Trump’s shooting
7/16/24 Tilted Irish Kilt post
Emergency Roundtable 7-14-24 (discusses Trump’s assassination attempt)
Rumble ^ | 14 Jul, 2024 | Lt Col Steven Murray and Guests
https://rumble.com/v56xpkt-emergency-roundtable-7-14-24.html (Video : 1 hr., 18 min)
An “After Action” discussion ‘Roundtable’ by 6 former military personnel (security specialists, firearms instructors, etc.) They discussed the various detailed, red warning flags of what went wrong before and after the shooting incident. They give you the who, what, why things went wrong.
Used to be under Treasury and its original mission was to protect the currency. Has “only” been protecting presidents since 1901.
I don’t care.
I am sick of hearing Democrat excuses.
The head of the Secret Service needs to be fired since she doesn’t have the moral courage to quit.
Ultimately, Biden is head of the Executive Branch which the Secret Service falls under.
He has no moral courage, either.
If you accept crappy, dangerous performance, then you get crappy, dangerous performance.
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