Marine Interdiction Agent

[lexmark]

I havent applied yet for that job.


At the moment I still have a year to finish my Juris Doctor, I am just going to wait for the next opening for MIA and see what happens.

[sarcrew]

Hey guys i got hired for MIA Erie Pa. anybody else going to that station? I am A CEO/CBP from San Diego and was offered that station. Hit me up sarcrew1127@hotmail.com

[charlydevo]

And yet with my prior CG (BO, Coxswain etc) and my CBP/Customs time I still can't get the dang position... I'd kill people to get back onto the boats and now I'm resigned to spend the rest of my miserable career as a CBPO. Live isn't friggin fair!

Why don't you work on a 6 pack? It's not that big of a deal. You could do it part time in a few months.

[sdk9]

Can anyone help me with posting replies. I tried to post replies on the other MIA forum but the system wont allow me. I can post replies here though.

[sdk9]

Mia

[Firebug]

actually we are 6c covered.

6c is the old law. All new LEO hires are covered by 12D.
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[sarcrewmia]

anybody know what the requirements are from gs 7 to gs 9 for MIA. i got hired in as a gs7 and want to know what qualifications or licenses i need to go up to gs9. I know you have to get your 6 pack for gs11 and masters license for 12. any input let me know.

[chewy]

Why don't you work on a 6 pack? It's not that big of a deal. You could do it part time in a few months.

Ya, I could... I worked on getting it right after I got out of the CG and was working as a first mate for a company where I ran a cruise boat and dive recovery vessel but I left before I finished it. Honestly I'm SOOO done with CBP I'm not sure I'd bother anymore. Detroit has totally destroyed any good feelings I had about my agency and I just want out now. I'm looking at a private hazmat company right now and one other job. I want out of Detroit but the wife is content here, I tried to maybe go to NTC or something for a couple years just to break up the manotiny but she won't go there either. Every TDY I put in for I get passed over, I'm one of only 2 of our 10 FI's who hasn't been allowed to FMAT school, we had transfer lined up with the Boston DFO to go to way Northern Maine (when the wife was willing to transfer) and my DFO at the time denied it. Now the wife is tired of trying and being refused (several CSI and PreClearance positions also that one of us was accepted but they wouldn't take us both or CSI where they won't take married couples in the same office) and is just going to stay here. I'd have been gone a while ago but the money is good and right now I'm just dang happy to be employed so....
All I ever wanted in life was to be a K-9 handler and joined Customs because I was told it was easy to do. Nothing turned out to be farther from the truth. My hazmat certifications and EMT license are all lapsed now because they wouldn't let me take time to keep up on them, the only way I could recertify my first couple years was to make sure it landed on my off day or call in sick because I put in for leave to do my 8 hour recert and it was denied over and over. Every time we try to do things it just seems like we hit a wall. My port just doesn't want to put any time or effort into training or anything not related to running the booth. And even that they basically only do a week or two of OJT and your signed off to process trucks. We do no enforcement, no pre primary or post primary, very little with the K-9s we do have. I think over the 11 and a half years I just kept plugging along hoping that time and world events would change how we operate but it hasn't. Some little things change as window dressing but ultimatly nothing changed and in fact we frequently are even below minimum policy requirements and no one ever seems to care. I've just gotten so tired of fighting to change things and then getting them right up to the edge only to have it smashed (like firearms, got us all worked up to start doing proper training and maybe some fun learning stuff and then I'm pulled from the full time position and thrown on primary and when I'm at the range we're back to our previous years of shoot and leave (120 and a gun) kind of mentality). I'm not sure the grass would be any greaner with A&M although the guys I know well that work it do love it...

Sorry about the rant but...

[BP348]

I'm not sure the grass would be any greaner with A&M although the guys I know well that work it do love it...

All the guys I know in A&M love it. So it seems like it would be worth a try. What do you have to loose? It sounds like your wife in content there where your at but you die a little everyday. :(

It sounds like something has to give. Either your wife is going to have to agree to move somewhere so you can be happier at work or you're going to end up leaving CBP, which would also be a shame after 12 years service.

[sdk9]

I'm a k9 officer with CBP in San Diego and over here the politics are worst than any other ports. There a bunch of openings for K9 for different locations though if you wanted to relocate.

[sdk9]

You know any MIA from Erie Pa or near there? I was trying to find out how it is over there bec i got offered a MIA position in Erie Pa.? Don't know if the move from San Diego is worth it.

[BP348]

You know any MIA from Erie Pa or near there? I was trying to find out how it is over there bec i got offered a MIA position in Erie Pa.? Don't know if the move from San Diego is worth it.

I don't know any MIA's but I do know 1 USBP agent & he really likes it.

I've heard nothing but GOOD things about MIA so If MIA is what you really want I'd go for it. Most of the guys I know in MIA or USBP guys who want MIA are boat guys to begin with so if that's your thing MIA is the way to go.

Plus MIA's are Journeyman GS-12's. ;)

[Group9]

BIG has a buddy who is a MIA in PR and he wants to jump ship (pun intended :D), to ICE/OI.

Why would he want to do that? I would trade my 1811 to ride around in boats all day any chance I got.

If I had even known what a MIO was when I was younger, that's where I would have gone. :D

[BP348]

Why would he want to do that? I would trade my 1811 to ride around in boats all day any chance I got.

If I had even known what a MIO was when I was younger, that's where I would have gone. :D

I know a former USBP guy who got a MIA position in Tampa. About a year after he got the MIA spot ICE OI called for a small office in AR. He turned them down.

[chewy]

I'm a k9 officer with CBP in San Diego and over here the politics are worst than any other ports. There a bunch of openings for K9 for different locations though if you wanted to relocate.

That's funny because that's exactly how we here think!! I can't relocate which is part of what has screwed me on the job front. I was selected for the Bomb dog position a few years back but I was then un-selected because there was an open redbook IA file on me for a vehicle accident FOUR YEARS prior that was never closed. After a few incidents like that I've decided that fate is against me or something... I keep applying but I just don't get excited for it anymore like applications in the past. I guess I figure if I wait in anticipation I'll never get it and I'll just stress myself out worse. If I don't expect it maybe it'll happily smack me upside the head.