Wanted to know a little bit about the Marine Sentries who guard the White House door. Attached a video made during Obama time in the White House showing a bit of the Marine Sentry life. Found out that there are four of them. They do 30 minute shifts. Not allowed even to scratch their noses.
An account from a random message board on how a marine works at the Whitehouse not, just as the Whitehouse Sentry:
"The way you get this job, at least in the Marines anyway, is first you have to be an infantryman, then you you need dumb luck to get selected out of bootcamp (im sure theres a minimum GT and AFQT scores you have to have but i dont know what they are) Once you get selected you go to a board of Navy/Marine officers and they yey or ney you. If you get a Yey you take Phsyc test which are long and drawn out and ask the same questions about 20 times in 20 different ways. Once thats done they send you to security forces school in Chesapeke Va and you learn how to shoot pistol, shotguns and learn the finer points of guard duty, once you graduate that you go to Marine Barracks washington dc and stand guard around the barracks until your clearance comes through which usually takes 6 months depending on how backlogged the DIA is. Once you get your TSCI clearance you go infront of another board with the Leadership of both the Camp David Security Company or the WHCA security detachment and they decide to which unit you will go. When i was there the stellar marines went to camp david while WHCA got the rejects, Ironicly Camp David is crappy duty while WHCA allows you to travel the world and stay in fancy hotels"