I Tried FBI Academy

Each of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's special agents must be ready and able to meet any challenge. Your foundation of security or the life of a loved one may depend on it. FBI Bill Tolkien. Sally is right, it is a fake city but it is populated by real people. everything is at stake, from the place itself to the people on the streets, she has to be able to take that into account, you will have to make split-second decisions about whether to take another person's life or whether one mistake can taking a life training takes you to a certain point when you have lethal force in your hands there is a huge mental component to that you can't really train no one can prepare you you just have to be in What's up guys welcome back to my channel YouTube and in this challenge accepted episode, I will be training at the FBI Academy in Quantico?

I'm sure most of you are wondering how this is possible. About nine months ago, Garrett scrapped the idea. What happens if we go to the FBI? Most of Garrett's ideas are not that feasible. We cold called the FBI because yes, their phone number is front and center on their website. Someone responded, we presented this idea to them, and they said we'll get back to you. Twelve weeks later we got an email from the FBI Public Affairs Office saying, Hi Michelle, your project is approved, so over the next week I'll see what's actually needed. to become a special agent and at the end of the training period, I will test my skills in what is known as Hogan's Alley, a fake town populated by real actors where I will have to make split-second life and death decisions.

Challenge accepted. Welcome to the FBI Academy. Thousands of people apply for these jobs. You are lucky to be sitting here right now. You will be evaluated 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Probably the number one reason people fail is that they don't come here with the right mindset. It is a very challenging curriculum. The days that are going to be great are going to be really terrible days for you, but you have to have a positive mindset to get through them. If you could recite the honor code out loud as a student at the FBI Academy.

I am dedicated to the pursuit of truth and knowledge I subscribe to the highest standards of honesty integrity fidelity and honorable behavior I will not tolerate the actions of those who would use dishonest means to achieve these ethical hopes once you obtain those credentials and come see us and get his weapon. If your life has changed forever, some of your friends may now suddenly not want to associate with you because you are a law enforcement officer. Suddenly, your kids may not be invited to birthday parties or play dates because they know you have a gun. in the house it's a calling and you have to be willing to put in that effort to be a special agent named behind the physical fitness test it's the first thing agents have to pass in order to even come to the Academy so I really really want to pass this, okay, I feel like I deserve to be here for the rest of the video, so my name is John Throat.

I am an SSA in the physical training unit. You're going to do sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, there are pull-ups. there are bullets nobody said anything about pull ups okay I'm going to go ahead and do a 300 meter sprint you know 300 meter sprint you're going to go ahead and do your mile and a half in the events you have to need a minimum of 12 points, your partner will miss this is going to be very difficult, it's very hot outside, it's been a minute since I've been in humidity like this, these will be interesting abs to achieve a point you have to do between 35 and 36 in a period of one minute and there is no rest between repetitions if the rest ends, you have done this many times, damn it, okay, start, that's 30 seconds, back up a little Michelle there you go up and back up on your shoulders don't put your shirt on 55 will be 59 points Hey, the next event was going to be pull-ups, we do pull-ups more as an assessment to see where you are.

I'm not going towards total school, so if you lay a goose egg don't worry, my goose zero, I think you have at least two in your grip and you shoot one, that's too, that's three, sorry, your chin was just there at the bar, it wasn't like that. Don't go over the bar, so oh, we have a strict protocol here. Well, the next event I was going to do was push-ups, so this is not timed, it's not timed, it's a continuous movement, so we're going to do 19 to 21 push-ups. The moment you stop moving, he wouldn't throw anymore, so everyone goes in that leaning forward resting position, oh that's hot, can I go to the grass?

Yes, you can do it on the grass, that shows how hot it is today, yes, okay, let's go. on that front, lean your arm into a rest position, drop your hips a little bit and over you 1 2 3 and down to the right, so the flexion tends to be the one that people have a lot of trouble with and it's not necessarily a matter of them having the strength that follows all the protocols people will go low enough from elbow to shoulder basically run flat and go down 29 to get points good job the reason they didn't count the last one you dropped to Joe, you had to go back to positions. then you would have been 30, that's fine, the next event will be the 300 meter sprint.

The time you were looking for is between 50 and 62 seconds to get two points. You will stay in your lane the entire way. inside lane so wrap yourself up I know you're going to be okay you're going to be okay miss warden are you ready ready Michelle okay three two one time this is probably the hardest event we've put the both of you a marathon before, but this is a different form of cardio, yes absolutely, how did you do it? 52 seconds, seven points, hold ten seconds faster than your knees, good job, good job, oh yeah, I can't wait the last time I went for a run, it definitely felt like it was longer than it actually was.

I have to go that mile. Soon and a half we are not going to spend half the money today. Well, I just received information that we have a black flag condition. The Marine Corps Base here monitors humidity and temperatures. Strenuous outdoor activities are currently not appropriate. I received a part right now. and this is not something I can let you worry about, this is my car, okay, and this is disappointing because I feel like our audience is going to think that I cheated, no, I'll say that Michelle didn't cheat on this, this was the call from the office and the basic Marine Corps Quantico calls you above average based on the scores you showed between the sit-ups and the 300 meter sprint.

He got 16 points and then three pull-ups, so you got 19 points total. I think I would have killed that. mile and a half good job when they told me there was a black flag and that I wouldn't be able to finish the test I was very disappointed because I want to fully commit to everything I do even though I got 19 points which technically exceeds the minimum of 12 points I still haven't passed the try because to do it you have to try all the different events. My name is Bobby Chacón. I was an FBI special agent for 27 years.

I was assigned to the New York Office. City field office where I worked with a Jamaican drug gang that used Colombian cartels. I transitioned to become a part-time diver for the FBI, so I started working underwater when they retired. I immediately started working on a show called Criminal Minds working with the director's actors. I was a consultant to the writers, so tell me a little about your experience at Quantico, what can I expect? There's a certain mental aspect to it, you can run and you can do all those things, but when you have deadly force in your hands, you have a weapon.

There is a huge mental component in your hand that you can't train for and no one can really prepare you for it, you just have to be in it. Farm training is the largest block of instruction here at the Academy, the weapon we issue is the Glock. 19 M made just for the FBI fired over one hundred and twenty thousand rounds without fail each training session would begin with the cardinal rules of safety treat all firearms as if they were loaded keep your finger off the trigger until you intend to press it never point a firearm at anyone unless you are justifying how FBI firearms training is different from military or police

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, so most of our operations are done very early in the morning, if you're going to arrest someone, you can almost guarantee they're at home. like 5:00 a.m., so a lot of times it's dark, we use our weapons when there's not much light, the biggest difference in the training we do is that we have the time and luxury to be able to plan most of it. of our operations before we arrest someone, so we turn off the lights normally in an operation, when you arrive, you have these type of lights that help identify us as law enforcement, but people go around the back of the house to the side from The house takes away some of those fears of the neighbors, that makes us a little safer, so you want to try to shoot, okay, we have an empty gun, let's load it, we'll do it in the dark, yes, you have to be able to do it . do this kind of thing in the dark, you know, with your eyes closed, that kind of thing we have our flashlights, we'll put them in that supporting position with the back of our hands together and then we would say the light goes out and it gives a step left or step right, you know what I mean, yeah, because they're firing back at you, they're starting to look at where the light is on, take out the target, give me two shots, turn off the light, come back four , give me two more shots, there you go, now I have a light mounted on the gun, just press that little switch so I can illuminate the target, oh, this is much easier, because you have both hands on the gun, a good de the other skills.

What we train is that as soon as we clear the gun, we'll rotate right here, that's actually a shooting position, so we'll be this close, so if you and I were talking and you decide that you're going to hurt me. I might have to shoot you from right here, so hand hit your chest again, draw one, two, three, thank you, it's close. I feel like I'm going to shoot myself by accident, like I'm bringing it. I don't know, you have a hit and bring that back, that's important, okay, up close, are you ready to shoot? There you go and holster, that was very intense, yeah, you get the concussion back from the target, it hits you right in the chest, we shot a lot of holes in the paper and do that because we have to score, we have to evaluate performance and that's how it We do, but what we're really trying to do is shoot a human during this training.

You are going to place positions in which you have to make a decision in a fraction of a second, the wrong one could cost the Minister his personal life. The weather can cost you your life and that is a really difficult position. Hello, I'm the Supervising Special Agent and I called today. We're here to do a critical shooting exercise, but before we do it. You need to know what the deadly force policy is: First the subject possesses a weapon or is attempting to gain access to a weapon under circumstances that indicate an intent to use it against the officer or others: The subject is armed and running to obtain a tactical derringer cover 3 a subject with the capacity to inflict death or serious physical injury or otherwise incapacitate officers without a deadly weapon is demonstrating an intent to do so or for subjects attempting to escape the vicinity of a violent confrontation that the subject inflicted or attempted to cause death or serious physical injury, well I can say the FBI put their hands in the air, yes they should and it's very important to do it forcefully, like how do you say, like the FBI, put your hands up Now, put your hands up, let me see. your hand from an attempted kidnapping four days ago you are now in the building where he works as a night janitor can you articulate what you did?

FBI did not move did not comply with verbal requests he already had a weapon drawn it was a knife and his other hand was visible that is why I did not shoot at first I did not feel that he was going to kill us at that moment he lowered the weapon and raised his hands I did not like it I didn't like that. I didn't like that it increased your heart rate, did you? Yeah, and you know he's not really a threat, when did you pull out your gun while he was running towards us? Do you think you could have gotten it out sooner?

Yeah, so what's the benefit? drawing earlier could scare them more so they don't escalate yes, it could be more persuasive, right, don't let them talk, this is not a conversation, this is you giving orders, you have to be aggressive if there is any kind of ambiguity in your voice, the criminal he knows. They are very adept at knowing weaknesses. This man is a janitor and a local television station. You and his team have come to arrest him for a bank robbery in which he used a demand note but he shows no weapons. The FBI doesn't move pepper spray, okay?

I'm not going to shoot, but I'm going to use pepper spray. Oh my God, okay, wait, what endsto take?, he just took your gun, he just took us. I thought that was over. I thought you could say pepper spray. Wow, can you explain why you did or didn't do it? He didn't actually use deadly force. He didn't have a gun. Okay, he wasn't armed. That guy seemed like a big, pretty strong guy. He has been coming towards you approaching that distance. Would he fit under three? No? Yes, I guess so. He was alone. trying to be nice I'm a person who likes to calm situations by talking it's weird being in scenarios with people who are in different mental states or don't want to obey or listen and have to use a gun to make others safe this feels weird It's the waiting room he was wanted for bank robbery acquire other agents are behind the house FBI put your hands up don't move don't move okay I don't think I should have shot him oh my god I'm going after him we're running after him okay go ahead and holster, okay, like this, at this point you were going to shoot whatever you were prepared for.

I wanted to throw that out there to see if you could process it enough. There's a force policy that you realize, yeah, he doesn't have a gun. I have no reason to believe he has a gun at this time. We're getting them ready for Hogan's Alley. The nightmare scenario for me as a legal instructor is that I have a student who does not trust the deadly force policy and is hesitant to be killed. they shoot someone else or kill them, you need them to be able to make the decision in a split second, it's interesting because when you're there looking at a screen, it still feels like there's a lot at stake, my heart rate went up.

I was nervous, there was one scenario where I just froze. That will happen. It really changes your perspective on certain situations. You'll see a situation now on the news where an officer didn't shoot or didn't shoot and you'll know what they dealt with and a lot of times it's not that clear, that's why a lot of this and arrows of if that person had had a gun and a to that officers farm and that officer hesitates, then the officers are welcome to Tilak, that is a tactic. Emergency Vehicle Operations Center what we're going to have to do is conduct a couple of the exercises that we do as new officers, but in police

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training we were in a parking lot and there were cones, this is a real driving force with obstructions. built in so I think it will be a little more intense so this is our actual track just over 1 mile long we have a series of curves and blind hills.

I just realized that none of my mirrors are fixed, okay, we need mirrors. not for this as a training vehicle, we keep all the mirrors in to focus on the other things, oh my gosh, go and park what happened, so it would be a PIT maneuver, which is a technique that the authorities use in case you are. In a chase and you need to stop a guy, I thought I had a cone and I would go and reset it, but in Drive the officers really surprised because you never know, it's an advanced thing that we do with our hands on the wheel, but we don't really you have control of those cars, it's pretty scary.

I love seeing how the tail maneuvers are performed on these helicopters when they have the space to do it properly. It always works. Hello, my name is Ryan Bell. I'm in Eva, this is a simulation. a panic situation so you are going down the road something happens in front of you you have to dodge it so you are going to launch from below where that car is being launched we call it launch so you are going to start there we We have two different ones, we have ApS or system of anti-lock brakes, so you'll end up doing about 50 miles per hour.

Activate the ABS aggressively and then spin around those cones. One of them will become Rebs. You have to go to the green lane normally. you're supposed to go to mr. Benedict for changing lanes mine shifters are in sight almost off so they'll just avoid hitting the brakes ease off the accelerator stay on green yeah oh my god oh my god I hate this it's 25 there's a speed level, eyes are raised. Don't pay for the brakes yet, yeah, stop, hey, stop. Okay, weird brother, we'll roll you over, yeah, keep those eyes up, thanks. I didn't breathe the whole time, so now we've decided we can't stop the car in time because we just don't have enough. space between us and the vehicle, one of us will now gently drive into another safe lane to travel in, okay, split second decisions, you'll have to make our damn grave, you have this, I have this like this, this nice. work like a professional job you might have a flood you're in the FBI now we're out with what we call the stress obstacle range or queen obstacle the stress obstacle the notice we brought a truck we're going to have you start inside the vehicle you'll attack those goals and then you will get out of the vehicle and run the obstacle course.

We do this to get your heart rate up and create some stress. I've never done anything like this while shooting live. gun, you'll be fine, three in each, ready and fire, slow down a little, land your hits with full front sight, there you have it, take your finger off the trigger, take out the holster and let's move on to the next one as you go . your firearms training becomes more physical you are moving you are looking for cover and your heart is racing you may be in a scenario where you are shooting and you are running from car to car and your heart will be racing so if you don't have that basic level of fitness, if you are not in good shape, the use of that firearm will decrease in that front site, loosen up and press well on the next one, there you go, now let's go up to the front. you put that orange dot right there, reload if you cover the back when you reload, release the slide it'll come out, we're good, good pressure, nice and easy, there's one more plate, you've got this, lift it up a lot harder when you've got the elevated heart rate, those are six inch plates, they're much harder to hit, yeah, then the bigger torsos and I'm just trying to imagine people moving, yeah, at least these targets are stationary, right, don't you They are shooting.

My name is Sam Benson. I'm a supervisory special agent here at the Academy. We are going to work on an action versus reaction exercise. You will be with your gun ready to shoot if necessary and the other guy will have a gun in his hand right next to him, you will give him orders telling him that the FBI does not move when he gives the go-ahead, he will start the shooting and I want you to face it with one. Spin as fast as you can if you don't fire when necessary you are increasing the risk to yourself and potentially other people.

It hurts? Do you want me to tell you the true? Yes, it hurts, stand up and fight. He is not so good, get closer, there, you completely take your finger off the trigger and in his first movement, you attack the target, you already start giving orders. Damn, your gun, put your gun, good, good, holster, they hit you, where did they hit you? on the leg wow, the action and reaction exercise really brought the shoot not shoot scenario to life for me in a new way. It's scary when there's a real-life human being in front of you and you have to decide if I do this.

Trigger or not, the exercise really taught me that when someone has a gun in their hands, they are the ones in control if I don't shoot first or if I don't de-escalate them as quickly as possible, you want? Do it again, you're sure the only secret is not moving and pulling the trigger. You still won't win, but your first few rounds will at least be accurate. Are you ready? Go ahead and pull your weapon. It feels so uncomfortable to run aiming. Gun Donnell, I know he feels uncomfortable, it's unnatural to shoot other human beings, keep your finger off the trigger, give him the order, come on, better for everyone, did they hit you?

Well, did they hit you? What I learned in the second round is that it doesn't matter who is holding. the gun can pose a threat even though she was not professionally trained she was still able to shoot first she was faster than you but she was inaccurate with her bullet you were accurate with yours that is a victory for us in the fight the mentality It's all about understanding that yes, it's going to hurt. I'm going to make her move and shudder instead of me shudder. This is all about getting someone to do your bidding, right?

Most people don't want to go to jail and won't. Do not go voluntarily if they do not have a weapon or if they do not pose a deadly threat to you, you cannot use lethal force against them, so you have less than lethal force, we are going to perform an active takedown of an individual we like to handcuff the people face down on the floor, however, many times, when we do it, they tend to cover their arms. If I'm just pulling this pump, I'm never going to pull that out. I have my knee, I put it in the small of his back, I put it under my hands, I lift it up and expose it now I put a little pressure on his chin, with his arms extended like a teaser, with his arms extended like a t-shirt, I want Do it so that he wants to put his arms out. to relieve pressure to 1%, so usually a person works the upper body, since they usually work the lower body, we can have you work the upper body, mr.

Wardin is going to give orders to mr. Ciampa, the person will not be armed. I won't tell you what level of compliance it will be, so it may be easy, it may be hard. Well make it happen guys remember Michelle talk to your partner Hany actually be a good doctor and talk to 80. keep control of that chin with your right hand remember that way we keep the pressure and we have a pin that lowers the shoulder a little better Michelle, otherwise you can do it, but get back to work, get back to work, here you go. that position gives you, okay, grab his wrist on his shoulder, shut up for your right hand, this moga is better now, they're handcuffing me, okay, one cup, I'm making the second one now okay, relax guys, Relax, I lost. my shoe, we stayed in the fight, right, we stayed in the fight because guess what, she's not important, who was the one that told her to shut up, Lizzie, it's me, don't get drawn into a conversation with him, you should Talk to your partner about what's going on.

You're going to put him in position, think about your environment and what people are doing, a lot of people are recording, okay, so we have to have a level of professionalism at all times, do you think I have what it takes to be an agent of the FBI, one of the hallmarks of being an FBI agent is being able to perform well under extreme physical stress. Training gets you to a certain point, but really the test is Hogan's Alley until you go through it, you don't know what it feels like. Hogan's Alley is not a Law Enforcement Friendly Area.

The bank is robbed seven times a week. It's a fake city like a Hollywood set, but it's populated by real people. It forces you to take advantage of all your training. Your legal. Your tactics, how to hit your firearm. this stress your heart rate will rise you're going to start breathing very, very hard at any moment you have to be prepared to deal with lethal force okay, so what happens now? I don't like any of this, so on 101st Street is a woman named Liz Gorski who tipped us off that Jen Mendoza, a person we have a warrant against for wire fraud, has been staying with Liz Gursky, the location is residence of a third party, which means we can't go in and arrest the person, so she will have to ask questions of the owner of the house, establish the appropriate authority so that she can enter and really understand the issue when you are here, everything is at stake, the people in that house, the people on the street, everyone is at stake.

Okay, guys, ready, okay, we'll do some justice. Hello Elizabeth, my name is Michelle Kaare and we are with the FBI. Do you mind if we chat for a minute? There's nothing wrong with me, oh you're totally fine, but you're totally fine. If you're totally fine, we're looking for someone named Jenn Mendoza, we have a warrant for her arrest. Jennifer rents a room and, honey, she works late, so she's probably sleeping, but she's already home. I'm not sure, I mean. She probably did well if we went in and took a look and maybe said hello. She would be great.

Thank you very much Jen. Special Agent Chris Fours of the FBI. We have an arrest warrant. I need you to keep your hands where. I can see them moving forward, defend me, please keep your hands where we can see you, please, in the first scenario, even though I knew we were just going to arrest someone, I was very nervous about what could be around every corner. Whether it's bad intentions, people are waiting for us outside, look at Michelle, I'm going to ask you to go ahead and walk in front of us, just ask her if she would mind stepping aside, step aside and keep your hands where I can see this, Please put your hands out. out of your pockets to be able to see them, thank you very much, we just have to get to the car, good job, they actually did it very well, thank you.

Oh God, my heart was racing and that's like the easier version where someone is very obedient. I've never done. I really thought about how when you arrest someone you have to deal with everyonethe ones who yell at you or judge you or whatever I was very aware of, like if someone pulled out a gun, it's all just for a brief moment, you went towards the gun, but then you realize you think there's nothing that justifies that action. Being afraid doesn't give you the right to shoot someone. I have to be able to articulate those kinds of things.

Are you ready? Let's walk here. I think we're running. The weather here for a guy who quit Mr. Bank Robbery yesterday his name is Matt Clements he lives there on 102 we're just going to go there and do what we have a conversation yeah the hardest part of teaching some of these new agents is to tell them it's just a conversation, that's all. If you see something or hear something that changes your priorities, then that becomes more important in this case. I'm going to suggest that I be the interviewer so I can take notes and you just keep your eyes peeled.

Hello, afternoon, sir. Clemens yeah hey my name is Chris Forbes I'm a special agent with the FBI this is my partner Michelle Park nice to meet you we're following up with you about yesterday's bank robbery we understand you were a witness we just want to stop get something for you, yeah, no problem, so it was like 3:30, yeah, yeah, Josh never, you give him a note, I don't know what it said, you made a quick exit, you're just having an argument, oh hey , forward. We'll keep it covered, okay, go ahead, the cover I have to go, how to feel.

Oh God, I knew you were about to do something crazy because I knew it wouldn't be as simple as I didn't do this, I didn't find any information, oh my God, when he got out of the car and took out the hammer, I felt my heart skip a beat. and I literally listened and said that's an aggressor that looks like he's going to hurt or kill an incredible look that's it you actually did very very well you take that shot even though there's some distance because if he makes a good shot with that hammer, it could kill her, so I have to take measures to save her. about his life, any questions for me.

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