Here's a concise summary of the 10 Secret Service tactics that are considered "insane":
1. **Ink Library**: The Secret Service has a massive database of ink tags to track down threatening letters.
2. **Protective Intelligence**: Every online threat is investigated, and agents interview friends, employees, and neighbors to assess the threat level.
3. **Gun-Spotting**: Agents are trained to spot guns in crowds and use tactics like scanning for people with their hands in pockets or wearing baggy clothing.
4. **Water Rescue Detail**: A team of agents accompanies the President to water-based locations, trained to respond to water-related dangers.
5. **CAT Agents**: Highly trained agents carry powerful rifles and undergo intense physical and mental training to provide cover for the President.
6. **Motor Pool**: The President's motorcade includes a dozen vehicles, including a counter-assault team, and each vehicle costs over $1 million.
7. **Food Screening**: Presidential chefs are monitored, and the President's food is prepared by trusted Navy stewards to prevent poisoning.
8. **Systema Russian Combat**: Some agents are trained in this brutal martial art to defend against multiple attackers.
9. **Advanced Secret Service Team**: A team scouts out locations before the President's arrival, inspecting every area, including bathroom stalls and classroom cupboards.
10. **10-Minute Medicine**: Agents are trained to keep the President alive for 10 minutes in case of a medical emergency, with protocols like having blood bags in the President's car and an agent stationed at the nearest medical facility.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The Secret Service has the world's largest collection of ink.
2. The Secret Service works with ink manufacturers to create a database of tags in the ink.
3. The Secret Service can narrow down the brand of any type of ink and trace where that brand is sold in the country.
4. The Secret Service has a team of handwriting experts to inspect the handwriting of any letter that has a threatening word in it.
5. Every single threat to the president is investigated by a team of Secret Service agents.
6. Secret Service agents investigate every aspect of a person's life when they post a threat to the president online, even if it's a joke.
7. Secret Service agents are highly trained to spot guns in impromptu presidential greetings.
8. Secret Service agents scan for people with their hands stuffed in their pockets, wearing baggy clothing, or moving stiffly.
9. The Secret Service has a team of agents on water rescue detail to protect the president when they are in or near water.
10. The Secret Service has a team of highly trained agents known as CAT agents who are trained to engage in direct assault combat.
11. CAT agents must undergo a week of preschool and then an intensive six-week training camp.
12. CAT agents must run a mile and a half in nine minutes, wear a 45-pound vest, and be highly skilled with weaponry.
13. The president's motor pool consists of a dozen vehicles, including a customized Cadillac limousine called the Beast.
14. The Beast has over seven tons of armor and can withstand high-caliber gun fire or explosive devices.
15. The president's food is strictly monitored by Secret Service agents to ensure it is not poisoned.
16. White House chefs are never alone in the kitchen, and Navy stewards travel with the president to personally prepare his food.
17. Some Secret Service agents are trained in a Russian martial art called Systema.
18. Systema involves controlling an attacker's levers, arms, legs, and elbows, and defending against weapons and disarming them.
19. The advanced Secret Service team scouts out every place the president goes before he arrives.
20. The team inspects every corner of the area, including bathroom stalls and classroom cupboards.
21. The team even obtains a list of anyone in the area who has been recently treated for mental illness.
22. The team takes over entire hotels when the president travels, conducting background checks on employees and taking over elevators for their own use.
23. The presidential Protection Division (PPD) is responsible for protecting the lives of the commander-in-chief and his family.
24. PPD agents are trained in "ten-minute medicine" to keep the president alive until he can get help from other medical professionals.
25. PPD agents know exactly where the nearest medical facility is within a 10-minute radius and have an agent stationed at that facility.
26. The PPD ensures that there are bags of blood in the president's car that match the president's blood type in case an emergency transfusion is needed.