| The year 1908 saw establishment of a small | | | | off to Quantico, Virginia for the New Agents |
| force of special agents within the Department of | | | | Training Unit (NATU). |
| Justice. This force was mainly comprised of | | | | At Quantico, you will begin a seventeen-week |
| former secret service agents and department | | | | training that will include six-hundred and |
| peon investigators. They were assembled and | | | | forty-three and a half hours of instruction. This |
| ordered to report to the Chief Examiner, Stanley | | | | instruction is spread over four major |
| Finch. This was the beginning of the department | | | | concentrations, academics, firearms, operational |
| now called the Federal Bureau of Investigation | | | | skills and integrated case scenario. |
| (FBI). | | | | Now that you have finished with your training, |
| If you are like many who are intrigued by this | | | | you must pass the course by achieving a |
| elite investigative force, you may wonder about | | | | minimum of eighty-five percent in the following |
| what it would take to become the next special | | | | disciplines; behavioral science, interviewing, ethics, |
| agent Moulder, or perhaps Scully? If that is your | | | | interrogation, forensic science, legal, basic and |
| dream, there are two ways this can be | | | | advanced investigative techniques. |
| accomplished. | | | | The physical testing that is required is as intensive |
| One is to become an officer of law enforcement | | | | as the academia and is on going. There will be |
| and wait for an invitation. Nominees are chosen | | | | testing during the first, seventh and fourteenth |
| from every state in the union as well as the U.S. | | | | week of training. The tests are made up of |
| territories and one-hundred and fifty foreign | | | | sit-ups, three-hundred meter run, push-ups and a |
| nations. If , however you prefer to seek a | | | | one and half mile run. These tests will be scored |
| position on your own, there are a few things you | | | | and the participant must get at least twelve |
| will need to know about qualifications and the | | | | points out of a possible forty. |
| training you will need to become a FBI agent. | | | | In addition to the outright physical rigors, the new |
| First, you must be a U.S. citizen between the | | | | comer will need to pass a defensive tactics test |
| ages of twenty-three and thirty-seven and be | | | | that will include boxing, grappling, handcuffing, |
| capable of passing the agencies strict physical | | | | control holds, searching, weapon retention and |
| requirements. The requirements include having 20 | | | | disarming techniques. |
| 20 vision in one eye and no less than 20/40 with | | | | I could go on. But it is hard to cover all the things |
| correction in the other. You must also possess a | | | | you need to become an FBI agent in this short |
| bachelor's degree from a specially credited college; | | | | article. If you really want to join this elite group, I |
| you must major in a subject that prepares you | | | | ask you to do more research on the internet. |
| for a career in law, like criminal justice or law | | | | There are excellent websites that cover the FBI |
| enforcement. | | | | career in more detail. |
| Beyond the educational requirements, you will also | | | | Note: You are free to reprint or republish this |
| have to pass a rigorous background check, up to | | | | article. The only condition is that the Resource |
| and including a possible lie detector test. Once you | | | | Box should be included and the links are live links. |
| are accepted in the training program, you will be | | | | |