USSS Travel Dates

With so much opinions and “your mileage may vary” when it comes to USSS travel, I figured I’d put some cold hard facts on the forum and show my travel dates for a one year period. I began tracking my travel around the time of UNGA last year.

I won’t be including the nature of the assignment or protectee name due to OPSEC. I included any day that I was sleeping in a hotel.

9/9 - 9/16

9/19 - 9/21

9/25 - 10/10

11/02 - 11/07

11/11 - 11/18

11/23 - 11/26

11/26 - 11/30

1/4 - 1/6

1/10 - 1/12

1/12 - 1/18

1/20 - 1/22

1/25 - 1/27

2/4 - 2/9

2/21 - 2/23

2/25 - 3/2

3/8 - 3/10

3/11 - 3/27

4/5 - 4/16

4/19 - 4/20

4/22 - 4/25

Took leave due to family circumstances

5/24 - 5/26

5/29 - 6/1

6/2 - 6/12

6/13 - 6/17

6/22 - 6/28

7/8 - 7/11

7/12 - 7/19

7/22 - 7/24

7/26 - 7/27

8/4 - 8/7

8/7 - 8/13

8/20 - 8/22

8/25 - 9/2

9/6 - 9/9

9/10 - 9/12

9/17 - 10/03

Trips with overlapping end and start days are days I was “rolled” to another assignment straight from the one I was on.

While a lot of this travel was due to the election, keep in mind that you will have 4-5 election years in your career which means between 20%-25% of your career will look like this. This tempo was pretty consistent with other people I know at other offices. If you are at a large office such as NYC or LAX you will still almost certainly be this busy, but you will likely have more of your assignments be in town.