IBA has trained US Special Forces in PSD operations since 1994.Since 1967 protecting the U.S. Army's The protective service mission was assigned to the U.S.
Protecting the Army's senior officials became the mission of the Office of the Provost Marshal General in 1967, during the height of the Vietnam War. The "principals," a term used by PSU agents to identify the people they protect, were the secretary and chief of staff of the Army. Army Criminal Investigation Command in 1971.The 1995 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission approved the closu
re of Fort McClellan and the relocation of the U.S. Army Military Police School and U.S. Army Chemical School to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
US Military bodyguards take their doctrine from Field Circular 19-136
The PSU provided onsite and mobile training teams and, over a six-month period, trained personnel from 14 Reserve and National Guard units and 188 personnel assigned to the 7th Transportation Group, Fort Eustis, Virginia. A total of 151 members of the Army Reserve's 733d MP Battalion (CID), Jackson, Mississippi, were deployed for annual training during the summit's period, while an additional 69 individual mobilization augmenters and ready reservists from around the United States spent their two week's annual training protecting NATO VIPs. These reservists were augmented by 19 active duty, Reserve Component, and civilian special agents from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and 20 civilian special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Protective Services Unit (PSU), provides personal security services, much like the U.S. Secret Service, for key Department of Defense and Department of the Army officials wherever they travel around the world. The unit also provides security to certain foreign dignitaries visiting the United States
PROTECTIVE SERVICES and a Protective Services Unit (PSU) os vlassed as being a Protective Services Detacxhment (PSD)
PSD syllabus:
Topics: Graduates will meet regulatory requirements and be trained to plan, coordinate, and conduct all aspects of protective service missions. The extensive curriculum includes the following:
Protective Services Doctrine
Surveillance Detection and Route Analysis
Unarmed Defense and Attack
Dismounted Formations
Arrivals and Departures
Mission Coordination and Planning
Advance and Site Survey
Special Weapons Training
Vehicle Dynamics Vehicle Handling
Evasive Maneuvers
Motorcade Operations
There has been a great increase in PSD since the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. some PMCs calling PSD as Private Security Details. IBA teaches the Generic Bodyguard skills and has been involved in delivering Close Protection (UK) ,Executive Protection (US Civilian), Dignitary Protection *to Government units in Baltic Republics, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Mongoliea, PSD to the US and foreign military units
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