A while back our local FBI agent was when he was in the Marines. He got out and joined the FBI. Great guy. Completely unlike the political hacks in the agency. He was also an instructor for the FBI swat team. His name is Fred. Retired from the FBI and took a job at FLETC, the federal law enforcement training center in New Brunswick GA.
I also had a joke of a chief that claimed to be a Army Special Forces Ranger, whatever that is, and said he was an assassin in Nicaragua. Fred and I were going hunting one day and laughing about this when Fred asked if I knew the best indicator Chiefie was lying and replied “other than the fact his mouth was moving?”. Fred looked dead serious and simply said “Because when you’ve done those things you don’t talk about it.” I knew then that Fred had done things in the Marines that I knew not to ask him about.