"It's a hot mother up here.."
Well yesterday was really interesting..
Got up at 3:30 am to be in to work at by 4:30am. Got to work and went to my briefing on what I would be doing. SPOTER for the Presidents sniper team! (A spotter is the guy that looks for targets and tells the sniper how far away the target is.) It was pretty cool! I was up on a roof about 150 meters from the Pres. and Air Force 1. The roof was pretty hot and I wad up there from 8:45 till a little before 1 looking for bad guys. Didn't see any but it was just a cool job to be doing! They gave me the rest of the day off after the Pres. left so that was nice. I tell you what thought, as soon as I got home around 3pm I crashed hard. I was really really tired. Slept till almost 9 PM woke up for an hour or so and crashed again.
The sniper guys were pretty cool, nice guys to work with. I asked them about how hard it was to get a job with the secret service and they said it was pretty easy. All you need is a college degree. They also said some "life" (military or law enforcement) experience would looks good on your resume. So that is something I might be trying for here in a few years after I graduate form college! They said the pay was good but you get almost no time off. One of the snipers said he had only one day off in two months. Long hours, but I think it would be worth it...
Got up at 3:30 am to be in to work at by 4:30am. Got to work and went to my briefing on what I would be doing. SPOTER for the Presidents sniper team! (A spotter is the guy that looks for targets and tells the sniper how far away the target is.) It was pretty cool! I was up on a roof about 150 meters from the Pres. and Air Force 1. The roof was pretty hot and I wad up there from 8:45 till a little before 1 looking for bad guys. Didn't see any but it was just a cool job to be doing! They gave me the rest of the day off after the Pres. left so that was nice. I tell you what thought, as soon as I got home around 3pm I crashed hard. I was really really tired. Slept till almost 9 PM woke up for an hour or so and crashed again.
The sniper guys were pretty cool, nice guys to work with. I asked them about how hard it was to get a job with the secret service and they said it was pretty easy. All you need is a college degree. They also said some "life" (military or law enforcement) experience would looks good on your resume. So that is something I might be trying for here in a few years after I graduate form college! They said the pay was good but you get almost no time off. One of the snipers said he had only one day off in two months. Long hours, but I think it would be worth it...