China Bikini Bodyguard – Twenty women, dressed in bikinis wanting to become female bodyguards, were kicked, dunked, near-drowned and forced to carry a heavy log between them during a tough boot camp run by professional bodyguards on Sunday. Tianjiao Special Guard Consultant Ltd., a Chinese security company, started their brutal training regimen for their future female bodyguards in China’s Hainan Province.

This is the first open group of female bodyguards in China, and those that survive the harsh month-long training will be entered into a longer, 10-month program, wherein they would learn a variety of skills to effectively guard their clients.

Anti-terrorism training, martial arts skills, reconnaissance and business etiquette must all be developed in order for the ladies to become bodyguards.

The twenty aspiring women bodyguards all have an education of some sort, with many of them graduating from college. Being a bodyguard presents a different economic opportunity, however.

Instead of making the average annual salary in China of about $1,500, these women can make far more. Some bodyguards get paid up to $100 a day to protect their rich clientele.

I was stunned to get the news early this morning that a colleague to many us, Doug Runyon passed last night of an apparent heart attack.

For those of you that did not know or have an opportunity to work with Doug, he was a class act through and through and a great EP advance agent. Please keep him and his family in your thoughts. Doug you will be sorely missed.

The incident happened at an event in Iowa on Tuesday. A bodyguard for presidential candidate Herman Cain got a little physical with a Post reporter, The bodyguard made it known that he would physically prevent the Journalists from asking a question of the GOP presidential candidate, and then started backing into the reporter with his back and shoulder. Click on link to read full article: Cain’s Bodyguard

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After reading the story, several words come to my mind. Vetting process, due diligence. And what’s really sad about this story, I know several good operators that they could’ve used on this detail: “Herman Cain’s rep was dead wrong when he told TMZ that Oksana Grigorieva‘s ex-con bodyguard only protected the Republican presidential candidate one time … and we have the photo proof “.

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In Ronald Kessler’s book, “In the President’s Secret Service,” Al Gore makes negative comments about the Secret Service, Kessler writes about the time Gore was lecturing one his kids about the need to study when he pointed to the Secret Service and said, “otherwise you’re going to end up like these guys,” I wonder what Gore would have to say about this individual now that he’s aspiring to be a US Senator.

Daniel Bongino a former Secret Service agent who vowed to take a bullet for Presidents Obama and Bush is now trying to take Benjamin Cardin’s Senate seat. Bongino spent 12 years with the Secret Service before he resigned in May to launch a Senate campaign to challenge the Maryland Democrat.