The agency tasked with protecting Defense Department leaders is under significant strain, and the secretary's atypical needs are becoming untenable, officials say.
Pete Hegseth's Security Detail Is So Big It's Pushing an Entire Army Agency to the Brink: WaPo
-- Mediaite (@mediaite.com) Aug 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Unlike their civilian counterparts in USSS or DSS assigned to PSDs who collect LEAP/hazardous pay and massive overtime, military USACIDC Agents do not. USAF OSI SAs are officers and NCIS agents are civilians. CID Agents solve homicides and investigate crimes in warzones but they're the least paid investigators in the system. Now they are getting taxed protecting Pete "Hic!" Hegsbreath's real estate empire: api.army.mil
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