@AdvanceGuyNotes

Hey Everyone. I don’t know what happened to the OG @AdvanceGuyNotes. The account is dead and the name became available. So I’m (@kentgray1) now holding it. Feel free to spotlight #badadvance! @advancegalnote @pjoneilLF @douglandry @JoshKingNYSE @timunes1

@cwebbonline The rain wasn’t the problem. Flying Marine One and ten other helicopters a third of the way from Paris to Germany, and back, in foggy weather conditions nixed the trip.

Remember that time Trump canceled his visit to the American cemetery in France during the WWI commemoration because of rain? But I’m sure he’ll proudly show up at Arlington National Cemetery today to lay a wreath honoring service members who made the ultimate sacrifice.

@jaredsmall And then there are the Democrats’ gifts. 🤣

OMG the FBI Director gave people gifts they will actually enjoy. 🤦🏼‍♀️

@TheAtlantic A bottle of American home grown bourbon 🥃 concerns you? Did you cover this breaking news? 🙄

Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has distributed “Ka$h”-branded bottles of bourbon to bureau staff and civilians, multiple people in Patel’s orbit tell Sarah Fitzpatrick. theatln.tc/yFuW8QpW

Jim Hooley’s cigars. Mike Deaver’s Reagan Cobalt cufflinks. @RonaldReagan

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This weekend, a number of “seasoned” Advance men and women gathered near DC to remember Reagan Director of Advance Jim Hooley. One of the finest practitioners of our dark arts, Jim lived a full and consequential life. He organized Mike Deaver’s ideas into reality, changing the Presidency forever. #goodadvance

#badadvance 🇬🇧👑 #goodadvance The Talking Hat! @JoshKingNYSE

@Deshawn68882369 @AriFleischer Absolutely not. And never has been.

@AriFleischer Nope. It’s the job of the SS to make sure the entire event/venue is secure.

I’ve waited a few days so I could read everything insightful and watch as many videos as possible. I try to never immediately comment on complicated, breaking news where “facts” are subject to change. Here now are my observations on the attempted assassination attempt on Pres. Trump: 1) It wasn’t perfect, and mistakes were made, but the USSS did its job and did it well. Most people don’t know it, but the USSS agents who form the PPD (presidential protective division) are the most highly trained evacuation force you will ever meet. Their only job when things go wrong is to get the President out of there to an always-existing designated evacuation route. They did their job. 2) It’s not the USSS’s job to ask for IDs or to check tickets at an event outside the WH. The USSS could care less if someone was sitting at the wrong table or didn’t pay to get in. That’s the job of the host organization, the WH Correspondents Association. The USSS’s only job is to protect designated people. 3) Presidents routinely hold events and stay overnight at hotels. Their routes in and out are out of sight and reach from hotel guests and visitors. Stairways are blocked and elevators can’t open on certain floors. They use different elevators, hallways, ingress and exit points than the general public. For overnight trips, the travelling party blocks off a certain number of floors, but the overall hotel is typically still open to guests. Perhaps Presidents in the future need to stay at smaller hotels so they can reserve the entire place. But no hotel will make itself available to a President if it means no one else can stay at the location if that means hundreds of rooms must go empty. 4) Who tackled the gunman? Did he fall and trip? How was he captured? Could he otherwise have breached the ballroom? There still is a lot we don’t know. 5) Why were the magnometers taken down when they were? The event had begun and guests were already in their seats. But agents, including the Uniform Division officers who man the mags, let down the perimeter that must always block entrance to a potus event. No one should be able to run in a straight line and get past the outer perimeter, not even by 60 feet, which is not a great distance, but that’s the distance it’s been reported of the breach past the mags. They need to keep in place physical obstructions, in addition to human ones. They also should consider pushing the perimeter back so there is a greater distance between the mags and potus. Note: There must always be a perimeter somewhere. On one side, the “dirty” side is regular life, meaning people with guns, knives and craziness. On the other side is the “clean” side, protected by an army of security. It’s impossible to stop the dirty side from approaching the clean side. But it’s the USSS job to make certain nothing gets beyond the perimeter. There are layers of defense inside the perimeter, but it’s troubling the gunman ran past the perimeter even for only sixty feet. 6) Who shot the USSS agent? Was it the would be assassin or was it friendly fire. One video indicates it was friendly. If that’s the case, the USSS should have admitted it already. I don’t rule out friendly fire. We need to learn the truth. 7) Shooting and hitting a running target is not easy. Even expert marksmen often miss. Is USSS training adequate? Bottom line: In an atmosphere like this, things will go wrong. But unless the gunmen fell on his own before he could be captured or tackled, it appears the USSS layered defense did the job. PPD certainly did their job. Good questions remain about better perimeters, checkpoints and training. But the excessive criticisms and allegations of failure by the USSS are off the mark. I want the USSS to learn the right lessons. I’m grateful to them for doing their job and protecting the president.

@MadBison66 @Mrgunsngear @HKFirearms @SureFireLLC @AimpointUSA @SecretService He’s packing up the Magnetometer.

@Mrgunsngear @HKFirearms @SureFireLLC @AimpointUSA @SecretService Oh man, heck of a time to tie one's shoe.

Big winner of the night - The Heckler & Koch MP7 set up with all the drip 💧 Appears to be an Aimpoint micro with a Surefire XVL2-IRC 🔴🔦 #MP7 #aimpoint #surefire #SecretService #EDC #concealedcarry #WHCD #HecklerAndKoch

Second place chill award goes to @andyharnik for continuing to undertake top quality photojournalism, while drinking bourbon neat out of a rocks glass. 🥃🫡

@jedigoodman Dana gives no fucks

Dana White was at the White House Correspondents Dinner

Let’s give the “chill” award of the night to @danawhite

I remember everything back to the black Econoline van. The RV’s pre date even me. #Goodcomms instagram.com/p/DXR6ZKclktT/…

It’s difficult to understand how they screwed this up, since it’s not terribly hard to clamp or lash the ridged frame to something…but #badadvance! At least they had some depth on the stage so it didn’t come down on all of them.

As Advance, do your very best to stay out of the story. youtu.be/ijkmb-qauoE

Todd is on the money here.

@TedSinclairUSA @DailyCaller Certainly a sad story. I’m trying to comprehend the statistical likelihood of a man, shooting his gun, killing his girlfriend, through a wall, in SFO. 😳 Mindboggling. Sounds like he was Advance, who oversold his involvement in security. It happens.

@DailyCaller @advanceguynotes got any intel on this clown?

Biden Security Staffer Accused Of Shooting Girlfriend In Shower: 'This is a very fresh investigation' dlvr.it/TRlcGX