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Hegseth's Security Requirements Tax Army Protective Unit
The agency tasked with protecting Defense Department leaders is under significant strain, and the secretary's atypical needs are becoming untenable, officials say.
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Pete Hegseth's Security Detail Is So Big It's Pushing an Entire Army Agency to the Brink: WaPo[image or embed] -- Mediaite (@mediaite.com) Aug 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Pete Hegseth's Security Detail Is So Big It's Pushing an Entire Army Agency to the Brink: WaPo[image or embed]
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More: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's unusually large personal security requirements are straining the Army agency tasked with protecting him as it pulls agents from criminal investigations to safeguard family residences in Minnesota, Tennessee and D.C., according to numerous officials familiar with the operation. The sprawling, multimillion-dollar initiative has forced the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, or CID, the agency that fields security for top Defense Department officials, to staff weeks-long assignments in each location and at times monitor residences belonging to the Hegseths' former spouses, the officials said. One CID official, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity citing a fear of reprisal, characterized Hegseth's personal protective arrangement as unlike any other in the agency's recent history. "I've never seen this many security teams for one guy," the official said. "Nobody has."
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"We have complete inability to achieve our most basic missions," one person said.
Historically about 150 of the agency's approximately 1,500 agents serve on VIP security details, according to people familiar with the matter, who said that when Hegseth took office a call went out for many more. Now there are hundreds assigned to personal protective duty, these people said. One person characterized the figure as "400 and going up." Another said it's "over 500."
#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-20 10:44 AM | Reply
The bill for Tito's alone...
#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-20 11:02 AM | Reply
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
#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-20 02:39 PM | Reply
Just don't arm Drinky Pete. Hand him an axe and the next thing you know some old lady walking her Pomeranian will be disemboweled by an errant throw from our nation's top booze hound ...
#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-20 05:19 PM | Reply
Grrrrr, mucho macho warfighter, grrrrrrrr. What a colossal poosie.
#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-21 05:55 AM | Reply
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