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Region 2
Colombo, Sri Lanka DL
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Kuala Lumpur
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Port Moresby, Papua New GuineaSeoul, S Korea
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Guayaquil, Equador DL
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Lima, Peru DL
Buenos Aires, Argentina DLMontevideo, UR
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Tel Aviv, Israel DL
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Rome, Italy
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Nicosia, Cyprus DL
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The Hague, The Netherlands
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openhagen, Denmark DL
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Juba, South Sudan
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Windhoek, Namibia DL
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Conakry, Guinea DL
Accra, Ghana DL
Dakar, Senegal DL
Freetown, Sierra Leone DL
Lome, Toga DL
N'Djamena, Chad DL
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso DL
Niamey, Niger DL
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Aduana, Turkey DL
Istanbul Turkey
Skopje, North Macedonia DL
Sarajevo, Bosnia DL
Bratislava, Slovakia DL
Ljubljana Slovakia
Athens, Greece
Podgorica, Montenegro DL
Vienna, Austria
Region 9
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PROJECT: From 2024 MEGA Newsletter - Update History / Honor Rolls
Six Marine Security Guards Have Died Overseas Since 2022 As reported in Task & Purpose Newsletter Feb 16, 2024, by Jeff Schogol MEGA NEWSLETTER | SPRING 2024 | 7 Officials with the Marine Corps declined to confirm the details behind the deaths of any of the six Marines. Task & Purpose has filed Freedom of Information Act requests for information related to the investigations into the deaths of all six Marines. Two Marine guards died 15 months apart while stationed at the same small embassy in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. Marine Cpl. Christian “CJ” John Zerbe died by suicide on Sept. 18, 2022, a Marine Corps investigation concluded; an investigation is still pending into the Dec. 19 death of Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Dural. The other four Marine Security Guards who died while assigned overseas are: • Marine Sgt. Ariel Castillo died in May 2022 while assigned to the U.S. Embassy, Madrid, Spain. • Marine Sgt. Dylan Pena died in May 2022 while serving at the U.S. Embassy, Guatemala City, Guatemala. • Marine Cpl. Elwin Ramirez died December 2022 while assigned to the U.S. Embassy, Abuja, Nigeria. • Staff Sgt. Julian Hernandez died April 2023 while serving as a Marine Security Guard detachment commander at the U.S. Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Editor’s Note: Information submitted by MEGA Member Jerry Paull
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