Leveling up your Security Team: any tips or help?

[Kamen Ryder Neko]

I'm currently at a lv of 46 for my Security twam but it seems to be a slow climb towards the higher ranks. My Combat unit is ten levels higher than that but having trouble with my Security team. Do they level up from FOB invasions/defenses or something?

[Rekalty]

They level up like any other department/division of your MB/FOB, assign staff with good stats to them. The game seems to put your best combat staff into Combat, and then dump the rest into Security, so if you don't do anything, your Security staff will likely always be inferior.

As for the protection level of your FOB platforms, that's tied to how well geared they are, how many defenses you use and how many staff are protecting your platforms.

[WirelessPillow]

They level the same way other teams do, by having better personnel, however they get personnel after the other teams have had their pick.

[Sir Loin of Beef]

Get better dudes. The security team is the dumping ground for all the soldiers who were too weak/dumb to be on any of the ther teams, so it usually lags.

[^0Mokyuuu ^1XD]

I think if you auto assign the staff members the game prioritizes other teams over the security team.

[Kamen Ryder Neko]

So I could just rearrange my combat and security if need be? Would explain why my COmbat is all S's and A's while my security is A's and B's.

[Greb]

Slap S rank soldiers in there, and then direct contract them. Problem solved. I have 127 S ranks there, all direct contracted so the security is "good" but they'll never be abducted or killed. The only tips I can give you really, the direct contract thing so they don't get wasted while you are away being one, and that farming S ranks is a pain in the ass but...worth it in the end I guess?

Mission 12, Mission 19 and Mission 48 are all great missions with high concentrations of the highest ranked soldier you can currently find, if you need to do a bit of farming.

The game never says so per se, but Zero Risk Security (the blue, professional looking guys) are the highest quality troops you'll find in the game, and have more chance of turning out more S ranks. S rank soldiers be found anywhere of course, even in Afghanistan during Mission 1 once you've progressed enough, it's just ZRS are end game units and thus get saturated with more decent troops and thus have a higher S rank count per squad than others...if that makes sense? (probably to help you rank up as you near the end game)

And yes like others said, the security team is basically another waiting room as far as Kazuhira is concerned. He'll try putting people in there with high combat skills, but he'll also prefer putting those guys in the combat unit first. Only when you've got a combat unit full of S ranked soldiers, will you start seeing gains automatically in the security team.