what does an atf agent do vs an fbi agent?
ATF is more funner. You will probably have experience in the coast guard to make you marketable to DEA. FBI has a reputation for pigeonholing agents. (Tend to spend their career doing the same thing, or rarely change).
It depends on what you want to do. The FBI are the better ones for sophisticated crime. But if you want the chase gun runners and moonshine, the ATF, if you want to chase after drug dealers, then the DEA, but if they don't have the drugs on them and they are the brains behind some crack houses, you'll have to go to the FBI for them. ATF is more funner.
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