Seeley Booth

Seeley Joseph Booth is a character on the FOX television series, Bones.

Seeley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, he was raised in Pittsburgh. Upon graduating from high school, he immediately enlisted in the United States Army. During weapons qualification training, Seeley displayed a natural ability for handling all types of weapons, but he specifically excelled during rifle qualification, in which he scored perfectly by hitting all targets at all ranges. After completing basic and advanced individual training, he went on to the U.S. Army Airborne School. Upon completing airborne training, Seeley was sent to the Ranger Indoctrination Program. Upon graduation of RIP, he joined the 75th Ranger Regiment. He then attended and passed Ranger School, earning his Ranger Tab. Honing his skills as a soldier in the 2nd Ranger Battalion, he was later selected to attend the Special Operations Target Interdiction Course. After completing the course, Seeley was assigned as a sniper to a rifle squad. He was later assigned to a weapons platoon.

He left the Army after six years of distinguished service and went on to attend Villanova University. Upon graduating from Villanova with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, Seeley applied to join the Philadelphia Police Department. After completing the entire application process, he went on to the Philadelphia Police Academy. Upon graduating from the Police Academy, Seeley was assigned as a patrol officer in the 15th District. Three years into his career was a police officer, he decided to pursue employment with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Before Seeley could join the Bureau, he had to go through the FBI application and hiring process, which included a physical fitness test, a background investigation, and a medical examination. After his successful completion of the background investigation, he left the Philadelphia Police Department and went on to attend the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Upon graduating from the Academy, Seeley was sworn in as a Special Agent and assigned to the Washington Field Office as a member of the Criminal Investigative Division. Several years later, circumstances led to him being assigned as the official FBI liason to the Jeffersonian Jeffersonian Institute's Medico-Legal Lab. In this capacity, Seeley works alongside forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan and her forensic anthropology team to solve homicides in which the remains of the victims are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard methods of identifying the body and/or cause of death are useless. He is a part of team that catches murderers that no one else can catch.