The U.S. Secret Service has, by way of its own actions and failures, had a few months of justifiably bad press, and that trend doesn't appear to be reversing any time soon.

An officer with the Secret Service Uniformed Division is reported to have suffered a non-life-threatening injury when they shot themself with their service weapon over the weekend, according to Fox News.

The incident, which was described as a "negligent discharge" while the on-duty agent was handling their weapon, resulted in them being transported to a nearby hospital for evaluation and treatment of the accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Agent injured by "negligent discharge" of service weapon

According to local CBS affiliate WUSA, the likely unintentional shooting of themself by a uniformed Secret Service agent occurred around 8 pm Saturday in the Northwest quadrant of Washington D.C.

A spokesperson for the federal protective agency said the injured agent was expected to survive and insisted that nobody else was injured in the incident.

It was also noted that the "negligent discharge" would be investigated by the Secret Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

Agent reportedly shot himself in the foot

No further details were available for those reports, but RealClearPolitics journalist Susan Crabtree reported in an X post that, according to her sources, "This was a Uniformed Division Officer attached to the Secret Service's Foreign Missions branch, not a special agent, who shot himself in the foot (literally) last night."

One source says the UD Officer shot himself in the foot, i.e. in a 'negligent discharge' with a duty rifle near the Israeli ambassador's residence. Not a great time for a shooting, misfire or not, outside that residence to occur -- to say the least," she added.

Crabtree also reported for RCP that the incident occurred inside the agent's vehicle and that some of her sources are attributing it to a lack of adequate firearms training, which for Uniformed Division officers occurs less frequently than for agents assigned to the protective divisions.

Latest in a string of negative news for the Secret Service

The RCP report further indicated that the "negligent discharge" incident was just the latest in a series of bad news for the Secret Service, which of course includes the two near-miss assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump within the past three months.

That report largely focused on recent allegations that a Secret Service agent working for an advance team in Wisconsin last week sexually assaulted a staffer for the Harris campaign after a night of drinking at a local bar, in which they got so drunk that other agents kicked him out of a hotel room and he passed out on the floor in the hallway.

There are also allegations that two female Secret Service agents assigned to the Trump campaign are facing disciplinary actions, one for abandoning her post to breastfeed her child while another, who was involved in the planning of the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where Trump was grazed by a would-be assassin's bullet, is accused of posting photos and videos on social media of the locations she was assigned to protect, including the Mar-a-Lago resort.

Earlier in the Spring, another female agent was placed on medical leave after she allegedly suffered a "mental breakdown" at Joint Base Andrews and physically assaulted her supervisor.

The reporter noted that, according to her sources and whistleblowers, at least some of the problems the Secret Service has recently experienced with agents are due to a lowering of standards in hiring, both to fill manpower shortages and achieve "diversity, equity, and inclusion" goals, as well as more longstanding issues like favoritism and nepotism, among other things.