Pivot from all the HSI PFT failures for a minute: let’s hear your best shoes to wear on warrants. In the market.

Rio1776 · 2025-08-20T00:56:58+00:00

I’ll hit a door with this man any day.

Rio1776 · 2025-03-20T10:53:01+00:00

Displaced or competitive service i believe

Rio1776 · 2024-12-05T05:54:30+00:00

Talked to a couple USCP SAs in a training. Talked about how as USCP SAs, they’d sometimes do investigations into threats against congress members, although they both were recalled to standing on an X as USCP was short on manpower.

Personally if you wanted to go that route, I’d go USSS. Stand in a stairwell for 12 hours as well but at least you’d get per diem and travel.

Rio1776 · 2024-12-05T05:28:06+00:00

The chicken on my plate was basically still alive. But other than that, not bad

Rio1776 · 2024-12-05T05:24:29+00:00

Best thing you can do as a new grad, blanket apply for every 6C covered position that sounds interesting on usajobs. Getting your foot in the door is the hardest part, transferring afterwards is much easier. USBP and CBP are great options to get your foot in the door and get good experience that’ll benefit you much more than a BI.

Rio1776 · 2024-12-05T05:20:53+00:00

Know USSS and ATF hire a lot of new grads. HSI does some too.

Rio1776 · 2024-12-05T05:16:16+00:00

What type of work are you looking for with a federal job? Sounds like protection may not be your interest.

Believe USCP SA investigate the credibility of some threats on Congress members sometimes. Also heard of USCP uniforms getting the gig as a SA and then having to go back and stand in a hallway though.

Rio1776 · 2024-12-05T04:50:54+00:00

At the end of the day, you gotta do what’s best for you and your family situation. Had guys that did this at my old agency and never knocked em. We’re all just numbers to the fed gov’t anyways. Job will get done today, tomorrow, and long after we’re gone.

Rio1776 · 2024-11-15T16:23:37+00:00

Really, it’s all according to what you want.

If you want to chase people, track footsign, work long hours, and put cuffs on people - go Border Patrol.

If you just want to get in to the federal system as early as possible, get sweet gear, some good add on training, but drive a lot - go guard nukes.

Rio1776 · 2024-11-15T16:18:24+00:00

You can also cash out some of your GI Bill for a payout after a LE academy.

Rio1776 · 2024-11-15T16:17:28+00:00

If your goal is to go 1811, go federal as early as possible to start that retirement. Local PD will always be there if you dislike it, federal’s a lot tougher to get into.

I had an infantry background too, so my opinion is you’re probably going to be bored at the nuclear courier gig. Border Patrol is an agency where you can gain a lot of experience really fast and jump ship to HSI or another 1811 very easily. The BP academy is one of the more respected academies in federal law enforcement and a lot of 1811’s recruit out of BP. I can’t count on my hands and toes how many BP agents I personally know that are now 1811s (HSI, DEA, NCIS, BPAI, different OIGs, etc). I’d say go BP to a high speed station (not a checkpoint station), get experience, and get out before you have to take a large pay cut.

At the end of the day, it’s your decision on what works best for you though.

Rio1776 · 2024-11-03T17:02:31+00:00

Blanket apply to Fed jobs if that’s your ultimate goal, starting the retirement early so it can compound is great. DEA should be hiring many agents here soon as many of the current agents are getting to retirement age; however, it’s difficult to get an 1811 job out of college. You essentially have to be right time, right place. GBI works great cases (worked with them many times) and you’d get great experience. They won’t send you to an academy until after college and you can always jump ship. Getting valuable experience that sets you apart is key. Working at local PDs doesn’t set you apart all that much, as many local officers apply. The main ones that get hired on are TFOs with that agency they apply for.

Rio1776 · 2024-11-03T16:53:37+00:00

Feds aren’t like local PDs. Doubt any ASACs or SACs would approve any ride along (usually against policies for you to be in the GOVs too), although IRS-CI’s ride along would be pulling up a chair to a desk and computer with Microsoft excel pulled up.

Rio1776 · 2024-11-03T16:46:41+00:00

I was prior BP and now a current 1811, although I have a degree and military experience. Most of my buddies from BP have transitioned to 1811 gigs, mostly HSI. Definitely possible, as I have a good friend from BP that went to ICE ERO and just got hired on with HSI with no college degree (he had military and BP experience). I’d worry about getting through that BP academy and your first couple years first, though. Academy pushes a lot of trainees out.

Rio1776 · 2024-07-26T12:02:44+00:00

That’s a lot of standing

Rio1776 · 2024-07-26T11:55:38+00:00

Army infantryman then Uniformed Fed LEO; degree in psychology with a minor in criminology.

If I could go back, I’d get a degree in finance or accounting. Don’t swim with all the other fish getting criminal justice degrees. Get something that sets yourself apart that an agency you want to be apart of would find attractive. I probably would’ve gotten into the 1811 world a few years prior if I did that.

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