Tim needed work and thought he could parlay his military experience into a job with the U.S. Marshals Service. In a story that he would tell over and over, McVeigh said he did very well on the written test, but was turned down because he was a “white male.” Just as McVeigh felt the Army cheated him out of sniper school because of affirmative action, he thought the Marshals didn’t consider hiring him because they only wanted women and African Americans. (This story is impossible to verify and likely untrue.)
McVeigh found a job in the Buffalo area that was a lot like his last one. With a pistol permit and a security clearance from the Army, he became a supervisor at Burns Security. Making a decent salary with few expenses, he found a new and risky way to spend money. He started betting heavily with a bookie on his beloved Buffalo Bills. He promptly lost $1,000 when the Bills lost their second straight Super Bowl, this time to the Washington Redskins, on January 26, 1992. (At about the same time, the Army demanded that he return, with interest, the $3,000 reenlistment bonus that he received in 1991, because he did not complete his commitment. This damaged his finances and contributed to his bitterness against the federal government and now, the Army.)
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