Brick Agent - a street agent...one who pounds the bricks
GOV - Government Owned Vehicle aka G-Ride
POV - Personally Owned Vehicle
Take-Home: when your GOV is allowed to be taken home
On the Beach - when you mess up and are given administrative leave...also when you shoot someone, you're given a couple days on the beach while the Shooting Board investigates
clown ops - may be more of a military term... refers to operations that are doomed from the start due to interference from the higher-ups
High Speed/Low Drag - all the action stuff, SWAT, HRT, counter-terrorist... when you get your black kit on and fast rope into a situation, toss in some flash bangs and engage tangoes. It can also be used to pejoratively refer to someone who is a "wannabe" and buys all the high-speed tactical gear... Oakleys, gloves, underarmor, etc and then wears it all the time.
1811: Federal Criminal Investigator (Special Agent) job series
6c: Refers to special retirement provisions for federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, air traffic controllers and military reserve technicians. Also referred to as Public Law 100-238 or 5 U.S.C. 8336(C)
AC: Applicant Coordinator
AFIS: Automated Fingerprint Identification System
AT/FP: Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection
ATSAC/ATSAIC: Assistant to the Special Agent-in-Charge
AUSA: Assistant United States Attorney
BI: Background Investigation
CI: Criminal Investigator
CONUS: Continental United States
CIRG - the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group
DSS: Diplomatic
Security Service (State Dept). See also
DS.
DT: Defensive Tactics
FED: Federal, Federal Government, Federal Agent/Officer
Feebs: FBI (or its personnel/agents)
FLE: Federal Law Enforcement
FLEO: Federal Law Enforcement Officer
FOIA: Freedom of Information Act
HIDTA: High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
HIFCA: High Intensity Financial Crime Area
HQ: Headquarters
HRT - The Hostage Rescue Team... the FBI's elite counter-terrorist unit
IS: Investigative Specialist (FBI)
JTTF: Joint Terrorism Task Force (headed by FBI with other agencies/depts.)
KSA: Knowledge, Skills and Abilities...a form you have to fill out in your application
LEAP: Law Enforcement Availability Pay... feds don't get overtime, they get 25% above their base pay because it is assumed they will work overtime
LEO: Law Enforcement Officer
NAC: New Agents' Class at the Quantico FBI Academy
NAT: New Agents' Training (FBI)
NATU: New Agents' Training Unit (FBI)
OCONUS: Outside the Continental United States
OPSEC: Operations/Operational Security
OPM: U.S. Office of Personnel Management
OPR: Office of Professional Responsibility
PFT: Physical Fitness Test
POTUS: President of the United States
SA: Special Agent (also S/A)
SCI: Sensitive Compartmented Information
SCIP: Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
SSG: Special Surveillance Group
TDY: Temporary Duty
TFOS: Terrorism Financing Operations Section (FBI)
TS: Top Secret
TS/SCI: Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information
TTIC: Terrorist Threat Integration Center