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Courier founder, Major Amos J. Peaslee (center) is flanked by the first group of couriers
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The Department of State’s Diplomatic Pouch and Mail Room, 1939.
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A U.S. Army courier delivers letters to the V-mail room at the Pentagon (1943).
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A Regional Security Officer consults with Marine Security Guard in 1946.
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A Diplomatic Courier (left) waits in the Department of State’s mail room in 1948 as diplomatic pouch contents are sorted and logged.
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Diplomatic Courier Ward Christensen displays his many passport visas (circa 1954).
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A Marine Security Guard Detachment stands with the Regional Security Officer (left) in Athens, Greece. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo)
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Diplomatic Courier Ray Irwin returns to the United States after an airplane crash in 1955.
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Special Agent William DeFossett receives an award in 1964 from SY Director Marvin Gentile.
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Marine Security Guard Post 1 at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, circa 1970.
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First BSAC Class
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Susan Shirley Carter the first female courier receives an award.
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Foreign Service National-Investigators Class I Circa 1980s
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Weapons Training Circa 1980s
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Antiterrorism Assistance Program Weapons Training Circa 1980s
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A Marine Security Guard takes a phone call at Post 1, circa 1980s
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A diplomatic courier prepares a pouch for transport, circa 1980.
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US Ambassadors Thomas Pickering & Jeane Kirkpatrick-El Salvador 1984
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Mobile Training Team conduct a weapons familiarization firing exercise 1985
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The United Kingdom's Prince Andrew (left of center, looking upwards) inspects aircraft while his DS security detail (Grace Dailey, center, wearing dark glasses) looks on, circa 1985.
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Ambassadors receive training in 1988
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DSS trainers simulate a terrorist incident aboard an airplane in 1988
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Police Defensive Tactics Being Taught by DS Training Instructor 1990
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Special Agents conduct raid training circa 1990s.
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Two DSS Special Agents from a Mobile Security Deployments team demonstrate countermoves
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The funeral procession for President John F. Kennedy, November 25, 1963.