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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the counter-assault team, specifically.

Do you know what the counter-assault team does? What their job is? What they’re tasked with doing, if called upon? What their training regime is like? Read up on them. It’s not the type of job most people could/would do.

It takes a very particular kind of person to do what they might be called upon to do. It’s a super-alpha-male type of personality that is required, not just to do their specific task, but to even endure the ongoing training. The type of men (and the very, very few women) suited to the team or even capable of doing the job, are of a hyper aggressive, combative, competitive type personality.

They’re basically the attack dogs. Paid to repel (and die) any attack on the President and soak up casualties while the protective team gets the POTUS out of the area of the attack. 
People who go to work everyday fully expecting to be engaged in a machinegun and rocket battle against terrorists. And expecting to get wounded or killed at work, if the scenario they train for daily ever happens. These guys aren’t normal. Therefore it’s absurd to apply normal values and mores to them.

As long as they’re fit for duty and report for their shifts, I cut them all the slack in the world for any trouble they get in in off duty hours. 
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This is total bullcrap. There are other Presidential appointees that travel with CAT teams. Not only do those CAT teams not engage in the kind of behavior the Secret Service has engaged in they would be immediately dismissed if they did so. The culture of the agency organization does not permit it either. There is no concept of being "off-duty" when traveling with the principal.[/quote]

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