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Secret Service tots: nothing rattles them!
Blog Guy, is it just me, or has the Secret Service started using younger agents.
You’re right. Due to a misprint in a Secret Service recruiting ad, the entry age for agents was cut recently from 21 years to 21 WEEKS!
An agency official admitted the resulting change has been rough. “We’ve had teething problems,” he said.
One of the new baby agents said a few rough spots were to be expected. “We have to crawl before we can walk,” he explained.
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U.S. President George W. Bush holds 5-month-old Stanley Debshaw, of Henry, Ill., before leaving the Greater Peoria Regional Airport in Peoria, Illinois, July 25, 2008. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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Are you sure 21 years isn’t a misprint too?
Nope, I got that off the Secret Service site. I like to include real information here now and then, just to keep people guessing.
“Me? Of course I”m happy! I’m a senior citizen and a president leaving office after a second term! My future’s golden! These young guys with the glasses though… Why y’all gotta be bringin’ down the photo op, yo?”
George laughed at the reporters who tried to warn him of the second head sprouting from his right shoulder. “Yeah, right, and next you’ll tell me there’s a problem with the economy!” he joked.