She was ten years into her law enforcement career, with the last five spent as an FBI Special Agent, so working all hours of the night and day was nothing new to her, nor were uninteresting assign-ments like the one she had been given today. Her entire workday would consist of hanging out at the Boston Consolidated TRACON. It was standard procedure for at least one agent to be present inside every affected ATC facility when the president was flying, so of course another agent would be monitoring the situation inside the control tower at Logan Airport as well. The controllers in the tower had jurisdiction over the actual pavement on the ground at Logan and the airspace immediately surrounding the field, out to a distance of five miles. Normally, United States Secret Service agents were assigned this duty, and in fact there would be a Secret Service presence in the tower at Logan, but, as with government agencies everywhere, money was tight, so the bureaucrats in charge had elected to use their own people to patrol the area immediately surrounding the president in Boston, farming out the chore of monitoring the BCT to their brethren at the FBI.
