The ongoing list of Secret Service operational failures that led to former President Donald Trump being shot in the ear is concerning, to say the least. Yet, one figure, a female Secret Service agent, stands out as exceptionally incompetent amongst all the other security lapses.

This agent, who is too short to even effectively cover the President with her own body, is also seen unable to reholster her handgun and aimlessly meandering around the stage while the other agents are performing a 360 degree shield wall around their principal. She appears to be dressing the part while never having received any training or passed any basic physical requirements for the job.

To anyone that has done any executive protection work, this is hard to watch, and the fact that this incompetence is being demonstrated by arguably the top executive protection service in the world is unacceptable.

The other obvious failures are also hard to comprehend as well. The shooter was able to scale a building and fire from a rooftop only ~160 yards away. In addition to that, bystanders were able to identify the wannabe assassin minutes before the shots were fired, but members of the USSS took no action whatsoever.

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Will Killmore is a US Army combat infantry veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He has deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 172nd Stryker Brigade and 173rd Airborne Brigade. Following his time in service, he successfully pursued a certificate of journalism and has been a blogger for Funker530 since 2014. Follow Will’s bad takes on Twitter