Feb 4, 2025 · Mobile Security Deployment (MSD) is the U.S. Department of State’s 24- hour, on-call, crisis response element. MSD units support the department’s critical needs both domestically and abroad by responding to disasters, terrorist attacks, and providing enhanced capabilities in support of protective details in high-threat situations.

Mobile Security Deployments (MSD) is a small specialized tactical unit within the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) of the United States Department of State. [1] The MSD provides U.S. embassies and consulates with security support, protects the Secretary of State and other U.S. officials, including domestically as well as visiting foreign ...

Feb 4, 2025 · Mobile Security Deployments (MSD) maintains crisis response units and support personnel, on an emergency recall status of 12 and 24 hours, to deploy domestically and abroad to defend U.S. embassies and staff in critical situations.

Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Special Agents are sworn federal law enforcement officers, specially trained Foreign Service security professionals and U.S. Diplomats. The career goes beyond safeguarding diplomatic personnel around the world — it’s an opportunity to drive global change and make a meaningful difference.

Jan 12, 2025 · To join the Diplomatic Security Service’s (DSS) Office of Mobile Security Deployments (MSD), you must first become a DSS Special Agent. This involves meeting basic eligibility criteria, such as being a US citizen, holding a bachelor’s degree, and passing a comprehensive background check.

As a Congressionally recognized, full-time federal tactical response unit that is held to the highest standards, MSD is the State Department’s on-call tactical crisis response and contingency operations element.

Jun 26, 2024 · As gang violence surged in early 2024, DSS deployed MSD units to augment security at the U.S. Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti. The teams assisted with evacuating U.S. citizens and securing the U.S. mission to Haiti.

Diplomatic Security’s Office of Mobile Security Deployment (MSD) provides teams of specially trained DS special agents who respond to security emergencies, provide threat-specific security training to posts, and supplement DS protective details, usually those under high threat or …

Jan 20, 2009 · Recent deployments included Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Jamaica and Cote d’ Ivoire. Tactical Support Teams deliver counter-assault capability in high-threat protective details both overseas and in the United States.

Apr 15, 2019 · Mobile Security Deployments (MSD) teams defend U.S. embassies and consulates in critical threat situations. They augment the U.S. Secretary of State’s protective security detail during trips to the dangerous locations overseas, and MSD teams train security personnel at U.S. embassies and consulates to enhance security and handle threats.