Reply #16: Not all of the SS is involved in presidential protection [View All]

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Their primary mission is still counterfeiting, there's a seperate division of them who are closer to conventional police in Washington and, I believe, a few other areas, etc. There's also additional ones involved in embassy protection overseas. The list goes on.

There's four or five thousand of these guys; only a fraction of them are involved in presidential protection and I'd guess the selection process for those guys is considerably more intense than I can easily imagine. Uniformed Division guys are usually more about landmark security than personal security (guarding embassies, the Naval Observatory, etc).