Protective Services Battalion

The United States Army Protective Services Battalion also known as the CID Executive Protection Field Office is a unit of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division responsible for providing worldwide dignitary protection for the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, and over a dozen other protectees in domestic and overseas locations. == History == The Field Office's peacetime protection operations can be traced back to the assignment of executive protection responsibilities within the DoD to the 1st Military Police Detachment in the late 1960s during heightened domestic unrest caused by the Vietnam War.

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