Please stop with your TS talk.....

Your TS, your job specifically, a 4-year degree, and veterans preference should make it easy for you to obtain any FLEO position, honestly. Especially if you have stellar references.

Border Patrol as an Agent should be very easy for you. You're right, many agencies are hurting; and no one more than Border Patrol. Partly because of their hiring process being sometimes more difficult, and partly because very few people are willing to live at the border; add that in with they need more people than ever due to the wishes of the current administration, and they are quite desperate...and veterans with clearances and degrees are literally their dream applicant.

You honestly may be selling yourself short with Border Patrol, and on looking for less than an 1811 position. Intelligence+Degree is also right up the FBI (any other 3 letter agency) Special Agent position's ally as well. If you complete your Master's before that point as well; even better.

Remember; you also have a 5-point hiring preference out of 100 possible points over any civilian. That is such a substantial advantage that the USMC, DEA, and FAMS, no longer even open hiring to civilians; because they go through veterans with 5-point preferences first, and don't make it through that pile before opening it to civilians.

/r/AirForce Thread Parent