FBI agents give Tampa Bay area students glimpse inside bureau

The Brief

  • The FBI Tampa Field Office hosted the Federal Teen Academy.
  • Agents got to share the challenges and rewards of their job.
  • This is the fourth year for the two-day academy in Tampa.

TAMPA, Fla. More than 100 Tampa Bay area high school students are spending two days with federal agents at the FBI Field Office in Tampa.

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Agents instructed them in everything from forensics to sharpening skills on a laser gun range. They also got to climb inside the FBI’s Bearcat armored vehicle, which is used by the bureau’s SWAT team.

They also saw the U.S. Secret Service follow-up vehicle, an armored Suburban with jump seats and gun mounts. It’s the kind of vehicle that follows in a motorcade directly behind the president’s car.

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