Posted on 10/03/2024 12:01:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.
In November, Michael Ebey, a Secret Service special agent, found himself working another 12-hour shift. Like so many before, it was grueling.
This time, he was part of the detail providing protection for President Biden at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Pangs of fatigue snaked up his legs from hours of standing on a concrete floor of the Moscone Center in San Francisco, about 3,000 miles from his home.
“I got to the point where I just said, ‘You know, I don’t think I want to do it anymore.’” Mr. Ebey put in his papers to retire in January. He was 52 years old.
For months, alarm had been spreading through the executive offices on the eighth floor of the Secret Service headquarters in Washington over the flight of experienced talent like Mr. Ebey.
The agency knew it would face an avalanche in 2024. There would be presidential campaigns. Political conventions. A NATO summit. It was looking to be one of the busiest years in the Secret Service’s recent history, even as threats of violence against political leaders were rising.
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I was out of town when that happened.
DEI rules will do that. Why I resigned from my job of 33 years. I have nothing, but loathing for DEI.
They don't want to hear it and will keep kicking cans down roads until, in this case, people start getting shot or killed. It disproves the DEI theory that everyone is equal and replacable.
White males need not apply
Jealous much? What kept you from signing up?
Oh, that’s right: it’s a long-hours-stressful -job -that -keeps -you -away -from -home -a -lot and you might be killed.
I bet that many of those people left because of what the leadership had done to the SS.
If it NY Times, its lies.
They were told to print it, no doubt
You don’t see any issues protecting Joe, Kamala, and Hunter
Bongino said they are rejecting the likes of ex Marines, Special Forces, etc in favor of DEI losers. 6
So where did they find the twelve agents to put on Dr. Jill at a supermarket opening or some damn thing?
If you tell DEI people to go to work like everyone else you’ll get sent to a class that really sucks for punishment.
Forgot to mention that they turned down a lot of special forces types because they would embarrass the pansies they were planning to hire from the Ivy Leagues for Management Positions.
I get what you're saying, but SS Protective Service isn't exactly a comfortable, 9-to-5 desk job.
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