The Secret Service wants to build a fake White House for training!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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This would cost 8 million of our dollars! Some would say that it's just peanuts but I would say that this is just a distraction from the scandalous behavior they have exhibited on a regular basis recently. Can I get a big amen on this?
 

One of our downfalls is our honesty. We tell the world all they need to know to destroy us. So transparency is wonderful but even without some traitorous little twerp like Snowden we let our news media into things they need not know. Sometimes we are talking life and death here not just "freedom of press". Once Superman's krypton weakness was known, he was in deep do do!

As to the fake Whitehouse, let's make sure if we build it we give Google all the info they need so we can show the world.
 

I've seen what they are using to train for Whitehouse duty.. It's just a box shaped pretend house. There are no trees, or bushes. There is no grass. It is not realistically like the white house at all. I heard that this would all be helpful in training agents to face real life senarios.. and to deal with real life landscaping that could be used for cover.. Even the dogs are trained there and do not recognize the real White House grounds once they are assigned. So I don't think it's all that silly to want agents to have the best training to prepare them to protect the president.


Here's the present Secret Service training center for agents and dogs


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QuickSilver said:
I've seen what they are using to train for Whitehouse duty.. It's just a box shaped pretend house. There are no trees, or bushes. There is no grass. It is not realistically like the white house at all. I heard that this would all be helpful in training agents to face real life senarios.. and to deal with real life landscaping that could be used for cover.. Even the dogs are trained there and do not recognize the real White House grounds once they are assigned. So I don't think it's all that silly to want agents to have the best training to prepare them to protect the president.


Here's the present Secret Service training center for agents and dogs


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OH! Now I get it. I approve if the idea is as you say to train our agents in protecting the first family. Good idea.
 
http://nypost.com/2015/03/17/secret-service-wants-to-build-8m-fake-white-house-for-training/

“Right now we train on a parking lot, basically,” Clancy said. “We put up makeshift fences and walk off the distance between the fence at the White House and the actual house itself. We don’t have the bushes, we don’t have the fountains. We don’t get a realistic look at the White House. Even our canines, they’re responding on hard surfaces rather than grass. So we think it’s important to have a true replica.”
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Too many tourists I would think. Imagine the panic it would cause if thousands of people didn't realize it was a training drill? At least that's what I would imagine the reason would be. I suppose they could do it at night, but remember.. There IS a family living there.
 
If these agents would just do their jobs and conduct themselves in a professional manner this foolishness wouldn't be necessary...
 
QuickSilver said:
Too many tourists I would think. Imagine the panic it would cause if thousands of people didn't realize it was a training drill? At least that's what I would imagine the reason would be. I suppose they could do it at night, but remember.. There IS a family living there.
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But just imagine the tourist dollars they could get from it if they do it the right way - put up a high wall around the entire compound, then charge people to watch the drills. They could put in bleachers, sell T-shirts, hot dogs and beer ...

And the family? They could always kick the VP out of the Naval Observatory and move in there - much nicer place, actually ...
 
SifuPhil said:
But just imagine the tourist dollars they could get from it if they do it the right way - put up a high wall around the entire compound, then charge people to watch the drills. They could put in bleachers, sell T-shirts, hot dogs and beer ...

And the family? They could always kick the VP out of the Naval Observatory and move in there - much nicer place, actually ...
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How better to say CAPITALISM!!
 
Drinking, whoring, sleeping on the job, how will more training help with these?
 
They don't need additional training. Some of them need to be fired, but they will probably just be reassigned to guard the senior Bush...:playful:
 
Ralphy1 said:
They don't need additional training. Some of them need to be fired, but they will probably just be reassigned to guard the senior Bush...:playful:
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I'm not sure you understand the reason for needing a realistic facsimile of the White House.. OK.. some agents need to be fired. However, the needed facility is not for ADDITIONAL training... It's for TRAINING. If you fire all the misbehaving agents... do they not need to be replaced? Do these new agents not need to be trained? Do they not need to be trained on a realistic venue? I'm not sure why you are arguing this.
 
Has there been any big problem before these recent clowns came on duty? Methinks not...:sentimental:
 
Ralphy1 said:
Has there been any big problem before these recent clowns came on duty? Methinks not...:sentimental:
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That has NOTHING to do with this... The premise isn't if this group of morons need to be replaced, but should there be a realistic facsimile for the Secret Service to train with. The fact that some of these guys are clowns does not negate the need for a new training facility.
 

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