In 2015, the biggest threats facing the United States of America are mostly related to technology and cybersecurity. As a result, FBI agents don't need to traditionally be as hands-on to get the job done.
To curb the transition of working for the Bureau becoming more of a desk job, the agency is requiring all agents to pass a fitness test, according to CBS News.
FBI Director James B. Comey sent a memo out to agency employees in October, which The New York Times ran an excerpt of on Sunday:
"The lives of your colleagues and those you protect may well depend upon your ability to run, fight and shoot, no matter what job you hold...I want the American people to be able to take one glance at you and think, 'THERE is a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.'"
The common link between all demographics is agents only get to rest for five minutes between the exercises.
Jennifer Schick, a public corruption agent at the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office where only 75 of 800 employees have taken the test so far, told The New York Times that most people required to participate are overachievers and are training so they have impressive results.
"It's really not that hard," she said. "Most agents wouldn't be satisfied in just coming out and making the minimum. They would be embarrassed by that, and that is why they're waiting."
