I wonder how of much of it real.
I don't think they chase each other on rooftops (what a very silly thing to do!) or cause a massive vehicle pile up on the freeway in perfect weather conditions.
What I do believe is they receive advanced combat training in the use of firearms and in hand-to-hand combat (am I even wrong here?).
Advance vehicular driving / piloting skills (like how cops are given advanced driving training and then teaching them to fly planes and helicopters).
Another question, did they ever get the chance or did anyone ever made use of their advanced training during operations like when they blew their cover (or think they blew their cover and then swiftly executing protocols to get extracted)??
Perhaps, the only times I see something almost as remotely ridiculous on the news are drug-related operations where it's possible some of the people involved are undercover DEA agents.
Yet I don't think the government-enlisted spies do any action themselves. They'd recruit local "assets" as much as they could like people who already work for a warlord or high ranking officers of an enemy faction so the spies don't do any crazy action themselves but simply doing the boring task of managing assets.
So all the spies do is recruit and manage local assets like a human resource manager in a fake shop where other people are on standby for extraction is about the only action they'll see but I strongly doubt it involves any high speed car chases.
So here goes, if my assumption that real spies hardly see any action and many possibly never seeing one, do they receive any advanced training at all?
Another assumption I have is that spies are grouped into specific tasks on the field. One group is focused on gathering data while another group is focused on ensuring the safety of the other group (obviously not posing like a bodyguard nor following the other group closely as that would make them stick out and ruin the element of stealth or subterfuge). People work more efficiently focused on fewer tasks rather than multi-tasking on many different tasks.
I think it's still the elite soldier groups like Spec Ops, Delta Force, Green Beret, etc that see spy-movie like action and even if they get recruited as spies, they stop seeing any more action as spies.
I don't think they chase each other on rooftops (what a very silly thing to do!) or cause a massive vehicle pile up on the freeway in perfect weather conditions.
What I do believe is they receive advanced combat training in the use of firearms and in hand-to-hand combat (am I even wrong here?).
Advance vehicular driving / piloting skills (like how cops are given advanced driving training and then teaching them to fly planes and helicopters).
Another question, did they ever get the chance or did anyone ever made use of their advanced training during operations like when they blew their cover (or think they blew their cover and then swiftly executing protocols to get extracted)??
Perhaps, the only times I see something almost as remotely ridiculous on the news are drug-related operations where it's possible some of the people involved are undercover DEA agents.
Yet I don't think the government-enlisted spies do any action themselves. They'd recruit local "assets" as much as they could like people who already work for a warlord or high ranking officers of an enemy faction so the spies don't do any crazy action themselves but simply doing the boring task of managing assets.
So all the spies do is recruit and manage local assets like a human resource manager in a fake shop where other people are on standby for extraction is about the only action they'll see but I strongly doubt it involves any high speed car chases.
So here goes, if my assumption that real spies hardly see any action and many possibly never seeing one, do they receive any advanced training at all?
Another assumption I have is that spies are grouped into specific tasks on the field. One group is focused on gathering data while another group is focused on ensuring the safety of the other group (obviously not posing like a bodyguard nor following the other group closely as that would make them stick out and ruin the element of stealth or subterfuge). People work more efficiently focused on fewer tasks rather than multi-tasking on many different tasks.
I think it's still the elite soldier groups like Spec Ops, Delta Force, Green Beret, etc that see spy-movie like action and even if they get recruited as spies, they stop seeing any more action as spies.
