Okay.... in District 14, near Activities Far East..... it lists:  MSD Samoa, MSD Saipan and MSD Singapore. The most recent article/website of any of these that I can find is that MSD Samoa is very small and consists of like 3-5 Active Duty Coastguardsmen'....... What do Marine Safety Detachments do? Anyone ever been to any of these places? probably not...just wondering.

Has anyone been on/at a MSD? I'm still confused about the difference between a sector/station and some of the other places.

Think of a Sector as "corporate headuarters"...where all the administration and planning for Coast Guard operations takes place. People assigned to the Sector, also may be actively involved in missions outside the building as well.My son is at Sector New York on Staten Island, yet his duties consistently take him all over the East Coast, boarding vessels, portside vessel and container inspections, homeland security...etc. He also goes underway with small boats and Cutters that are stationed in NY, as well as various local Law Enforcement Agencies.

Many times a Sector "headquarters" has a small boat station attached to it, as is the Case at Sector NY.

Hope that helps...

An MSD is typically tasked with inspecting cargo ships entering US Territory. When I was in TX we routinely had MSTs from the MSD/MSU with us conducting boardings. They also serve as the first responders for the unintentional release of HAZMAT.

My ex was at MSD Kodiak. I can tell you a lot of what he did and I can tell you he enjoyed it a great deal and learned a lot. When he was there it was just him, a 3rd right out of A School and 1 Lieutenant, that was it. MSD Kodiak has expanded a lot since then. Jim went there straight out of A school as a 3rd class, he left as a 1st class heading to OCS. When I say he learned a lot... I'm not kidding. It was challenging and there was always something different and I don't think he would trade that experience for anything.