Seeley Booth (Reimagined)

Seeley Joseph Booth was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a firefighter and medic in the U.S. Army Reserve, while his mother was a copy editor for a newspaper. After graduating from high school, Booth went on the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduating from Penn with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology, he enlisted in the United States Army.

After basic combat training and then advanced individual training, Booth went on to the U.S. Army Air Assault School. Upon completing air assault training, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division as an infantryman in a rifle platoon within the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment. Booth later attended the U.S. Army Airborne School and then Ranger School, earning the Ranger Tab.

He then applied to join the United States Army Special Forces. After passing the Special Forces Assessment and Selection course, Booth moved on to the Special Forces Qualification Course. Upon completing the entire training process, he was assigned as a special forces weapons sergeant to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group. Booth later went through special forces sniper training and was subsequently assigned to a sniper team.

He left the Army after eight years of distinguished service and then applied to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Before he could join the Bureau, Booth 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 hiring process, he went on to attend the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Upon graduating from the Academy, Booth was sworn in as a Special Agent and assigned to the Los Angeles Field Office as a member of a violent crime squad.

Three years later, he was transferred to the Washington Field Office. A little while later, Booth was made the official FBI liaison to the Medico-Legal Lab at the Smithsonian Institution. In that capacity, he works alongside forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan and her team of forensic specialists 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.

Dr. Brennan and her team provides scientific expertise and Special Agent Booth provides his criminal investigation expertise, allowing them to catch murderers that no one else can catch.