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MAGAZINE & WEB ARTICLES / VIDEOS
February 16 2026 (CBS News): Lance Corporal Kevin Melendez found dead at US Consulate General: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Lance Corporal Kevin Melendez: A Final Homecoming
YouTube: 30 Amazing Embassies Around the World
1984: East Berlin : Man Caught attempting to break into the Chancery
FACEBOOK-MSGDuty: 2026 "What is your Legacy"
(U) NSA's "Own": Marine Guards 15 November 1953-29 September 1978
DSS: - Special Program for Augmentation Response (SPEAR)
Dept of State: - KIA MSGS
Dept of State: - MSG Training
MARINE SECURITY GUARD (MSG) PROGRAM: 12 FAM 430
DSS: - Reports and Publications
Here’s why State Department agents joined on with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
Security Programs for Embassies and Consulates
2023
April 18 MCESG Ceremony dedicating McMaugh Hall to Fallen Beruit MSG Cpl. Robert V. McMaugh
- (Khartoum, Sudan) MSGs Evacuate Khartoum
May 19 SecNav Honors MSGs from Khartoum Evacuation
- (Khartoum, Sudan) What it was like for MSGs to evacuate
April 6, 2023 MCESG Marine Security Guard Marines receive a NAM for heroic acts
2022
August 9 MSG awarded at MCESG HQ
November 16 (Nuevo Loredo, Mexico) MSG & Driver Awarded for saving drowning child
2019
(Baghdad, Iraq) Marines Deploy to Iraq Embassy
March (Caracus, Venezuela) The Marine Security Guards and the Evacuation of U.S. Embassy Caracas
2016
Female Marines Guard the Embassies: An Experiment in Social Progress
February Marine Security Guard Program
2015
January 29 (Guatemala City, Guatemala) MSG of the Year
August 15 (Erbil, Iraq) MSAU Deployment
2014
New Posts for Marine Security Guards
2007
(MSGBn / MCESG) Marine Security Guard Battalion becomes Marine Corps Security Command
2001
Is the United States Marine Corps the Best Organization to be Tasked with Providing Security to U.S. Diplomatic Missions? An Examination of the Marine Security Guard Program and its Partnership with the U.S. Department of State
1998
August, (Hanoi, Vietnam) : Marine Security Guard - Hanoi (Author: Ron Keene)
(Nairobi, Kenya & - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) : Remembering the Embassy Bombings
1983
(Beirut, Lebanon) - Former MSG remembers the
bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut
1975
(Saigon, Vietnam) : Patti Morton - RSO First Woman RSO
September (Saigon, Vietnam) : Fall of Saigon = Last to Leave
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