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World
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2006 |
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Sep
12
Attack
on US Embassy
in
Damascus Syria |
MCESC
MEGA
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Aug
26
Former
MSG Sgt
John P. Phillips (Cairo
97-98) dies from wounds recieved in Iraq (roadside bomb) 7 Mar 2006
May
Marine Security Guard Battalion name changed to Marine Corps Embassy
Security Command
May 17 - 21
8th MEGA Reunion - San Antonio, TX |
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Bahrain
Nairobi
Nicosia
Dar es Salaam
Stuttgart
Munich
Paris
Lima
Guatemala
City
Geneva
Nairobi
Madrid
Tallinn
Montevideo
Baghdad |
Leatherneck
Article on MSG
Detachment - Manama, Bahrain
(03/2005)
New
MSG Residence in Nairobi
dedicated (05/2005) to Sgt
Jesse Aliganga
In Memoriam: Colin
Broussard (PPSU Saigon, Nicosia,
Dar es Salaam, Stuttgart, Munich)
In
Memoriam: Craig
Ashe(Paris Peace Talks
Detail, 1966-68)
Former
MSG, Det Commander, MSG Instructor Sgt
Maj Thomas Hall Jr. assumes post
as Bn Sgt Major of 2nd Assault
Amphibian Battalion 11/2005
11/15: Former MSG LCpl
Billy Miller
(Madrid) killed
in
Iraq with 8th Marines.
9/20: Former
MSG Peter
J. Tocci
killed in Convoy Attack
in Iraq
MSG - Cedric
Pippen, wounded
in roadside bombing
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2004
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(Feb. 29). Armed
rebels in Haiti force President Aristide
to resign and flee
the country
(April
12): prime minister Sharon
announces plan to unilaterally
withdraw from Gaza
Strip
(April
24).Greek Cypriots reject UN
reunification plan with Turkish Cypriots
(May 26) Sudan
rebels (SPLA) and government reach accord to end 21-year civil war.
However, separate war in western Darfur
region between Arab militias and black Africans continues
unabated .
(June
30) Israeli Supreme
Court orders removal of part of security barrier dividing Israeli and
Palestinian lands
(June
28). U.S. hands over power to
Iraqi interim government; Iyad
Allawi
becomes prime minister
(Aug. 13). Summer
Olympics take place in Athens,
Greece
Aug.
13–29). VenezuelanHugo Chavez
president survives
recall referendum
(Aug.
30–Sept. 2). Chechen
terrorists take
about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia; 340
people die when militants detonate explosives
(Oct.
25). Bush
reelected president
(Nov. 2).
U.S. troops launch attack on Falluja Iraq,
stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency
(Nov. 8). Yasir
Arafat dies in Paris
(Nov.
30).
Hamid KarzaiAfghanistan's
first
popularly elected president inaugurated as
(Dec.
15). Massive protests by
supporters of
opposition candidate Viktor
Yushchenko's lead to a new
Ukrainian election; Yushchenko
eventually declared prime minister
(Dec. 26). Enormous tsunami
devastates Asia; at least
225,000 killed
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MSG
Foils Car Bomb Attack at Embassy
Terrorism
Threat - Attack on Embassy
Richard
L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of
State Addresses MSG Graduating Class
Jewish
Review Article on Malta/Monrovia MSG
Guarding
The Empire Article on MSG Troop levels worldwide
MSG's repel Al
Qaeda attack on US Consulate in Jeddah
In Memoriam: GySgt
Eli Fontecchio Former MSG - KIA
Iraq Aug 4, 2004
In Memoriam: Sergeant
Melissa Schmidt, (former
Nassau/Havana MSG) Police Officer - killed
in line of duty, Minneapolis, Mn
Sgt Manual Matos has been awarded a Bronze Star
with Combat "V" for his
actions defending the US Embassy in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia on
December 6, 2004
Kyle Seitsinger KIA Afghanistan presented
degree posthumously
Jul
28: former MSG MGySgt
Shawn A. Lane killed in Irag |
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(Feb.
1)Space
shuttle Columbia
explodes, killing all seven astronauts
(Feb. 2).9-week
general strike in Venezuela calling
for President Chavez's resignation ends in defeat
(March
15)Hu Jintao succeeds Chinese
president Jiang Zemin
(March 19).The
United States and Britain launch war
against Iraq
(19Mar03 -
16Jul06)
IRAQ:
Operation
Iraqi Freedom - List
of KIA
USMC: KIA 522
WIA 5049
(April
29).First Palestinian prime
minister, Mahmoud
Abbas, sworn in
(May
30).Burmese opposition leader Aung
San Suu Kyi
again placed under
house arrest by military regime
(May
12).Terrorists strike in Saudi
Arabia,
killing 34 at Western
compound; al-Qaeda
suspected
(July 22) IRAQ: Suddam
Husseins sons killed in Raid
(July
27).Mutinous troops attempt
unsuccessful coup in Philippines
(Aug.
11). Liberia's autocratic
president Charles
Taylor forced to leave civil
war–ravaged country
(Aug.
11).NATO assumes control of
peacekeeping
force in Afghanistan
(Aug. 19).Palestinian
suicide bombing in Jerusalem
kills 20 Israelis, including 6 children
(Aug. 20)Venezuelan
opposition files petition for
referendum to recall President Hugo Chavez
(Sept. 6).Palestinian
prime minister Mahmoud
Abbas
resigns; “road
map” to peace effectively collapses
(Oct 15)ISRAEL:
Bomb Attack on U.S. Diplomats in the
Gaza Strip, \October 15, 2003 3 Dyncorp Security Guards killed
(Nov. 15)Suicide bombers attack
two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey,
killing 25 .
(Nov.
20)Another terrorist attack in
Istanbul
kills 26; al-Qaeda suspected in both .
(Nov.
23).Georgian president
Eduard
Shevardnadze
resigns after
weeks of protests
(Dec. 13).Saddam
Hussein is captured by American
troops
Suddam
Husain Captured in Tekrit
Pakistan: Attempted Suicide Bombing Assassinations in Rawalpindi of
President Musharraf’s , Dec 14&
25, I
Indonesia:
August 5- A car bomb exploded
outside the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 10 persons
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Beijing
Baghdad
Tel Aviv
Kabul
Jerusalem
Istanbul
Baghdad
Islamabad
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Reunion
- Quantico, VA
Historical Archives Launched
Detachment
Activated
Commandant's
Birthday Message
Marines On-line Magazine Article
on Baku Detachment
3/21:
Former MSG
Lt.
Shane Childers (Geneva /
Nairobi) killed in Iraq with 5th Marines |
Jesse Aliganga |
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2002 |
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(Oct 28)
Gunmen in
Amman assassinated
Laurence
Foley, Executive Officer of the
U.S. Agency for International
Development Mission in Jordan.
(Oct
12),
A car bomb
exploded outside the Sari Club
Discotheque in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 persons and
wounding 300 more.
(Jan
22), Armed
militants
on motorcycles fired on the U.S. Consulate in Calcutta, India, killing
5 Indian security personnel and wounding 13 others.
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MSGBN>
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Reunion:
LAS VEGAS
General
O'Dell Statement to the House Armed Services Committee
pertaining to MSG |
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2001 |
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INDIA:
December 13
Five gunmen attacked the
Indian Parliament in New Delhi shortly after it had adjourned. Before
security forces killed them, the attackers killed 6 security personnel
and a gardener.
ISRAEL:
October 17, A
Palestinian gunman assassinated
Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Zeevi
in the Jerusalem hotel
KASHMIR: October 1 After a
suicide car bomber forced the gate of
the state legislature in Srinagar, two gunmen entered the building and
held off police for seven hours before being killed. Forty persons died
in the incident.
US: Sept 11
Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Homeland,
Two hijacked airliners
crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Soon
thereafter, the Pentagon was struck by a third hijacked plane. A fourth
hijacked plane, suspected to be bound for a high-profile target in
Washington, crashed into a field in southern Pennsylvania. The attacks
killed 3,025 U.S. citizens and other nationals.
7Oct01
- 16July05
Operation Enduring
Freedom - Afghanistan
USMC - 9 KIA 8 WIA
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< New
Delhi
< Jerusalem
<Kashmir
<Afghanistan
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Reunion
Detachment Activated
Anthrax
found at US Embassy
Stars
and Strips Article -
Many
of Marine Corps' best and brightest stand guard at embassies,
consulates National
Defense Article -
4th
MEB / MSGBN Anti Terrorism Mission
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YEMEN:
October 12 , a small dingy
carrying explosives rammed
the
destroyer U.S.S. Cole,
killing 17 sailors and injuring 39
GREECE:
June 8 2 unidentified gunmen killed
British Defense Attaché Stephen Saunders
in an ambush.
SIERRA
LEONE:
May 1. Makeni;
Revolutionary United Front (RUF) militants kidnapped at least 20
members of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone
(UNAMSIL) and surrounded and opened fire on a UNAMSIL facility. The
militants killed 5 UN soldiers - RUF militants kidnapped 300
UNAMSIL peacekeepers
throughout the country
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1300
MSGs serving
at
124 posts in 115
countries
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Reunion:
Henderson Hall/Quantico
MSG
wounded in off duty attack, civilian
employee
killed |
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1999 |
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Ethiopia
/ Eritrea:
Border
War
BURMA: October 1
Burmese
dissidents seized the Burmese
Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, taking 89 persons hostage, including one
U.S. citizen.
AUSTRIA: February 16
Kurdish
protesters stormed and occupied the Greek Embassy in Vienna, taking the
Greek Ambassador and six other persons hostage. . Kurds also occupied
Kenyan, Israeli, and other Greek diplomatic facilities in France,
Holland, Switzerland, Britain, and Germany over the following days
UGANDA: February 14, A
pipe bomb exploded
inside a bar, killing five persons and injuring 35 others. One
Ethiopian and four Ugandan nationals died in the blast, and one U.S. citizen working
for USAID, two
Swiss nationals, one Pakistani, one Ethiopian, and 27 Ugandans were
injured.
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Marine
Embassy Guard Association formed by Robert
"BigBob" Knienietz
US Bombs
Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, US
Embassy attacked in Beijing during Riots
Leartherneck :Beijing
Riots
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Ethiopia
/ Eritrea: Border
War
Kosovo:
Uprising
Congo:
Tutsi
Rebellion
AFRICA:
Aug 7
A
bomb exploded at the rear entrance
of the U.S.
Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya,
killing 12 U.S. citizens, 32 Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs), and 247
Kenyan citizens. Approximately 5,000 Kenyans, 6 U.S. citizens, and 13
FSNs were injured. The U.S. Embassy building sustained extensive
structural damage. Almost simultaneously, a bomb detonated outside the U.S. Embassy in Dar es
Salaam,
Tanzania, killing 7 FSNs and 3 Tanzanian citizens, and injuring 1 U.S.
citizen and 76 Tanzanians.
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<
Nairobi
< Da
Es Salaam
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US
Embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam bombed killing
Sgt
Jesse Aliganga
Wounding a 2nd MSG.
Leatherneck
Article |
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1997 |
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Cambodia:
Civil
War
Sierra Leone: Military
Coup /
International
Peacekeeping Misson
Albania:
Investment Rebellion
Zaire: 30 May -
Marines
help evacuate 2,500 from Kinshasa,
Zaire.
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Saudi Arabia:
Khobar
Towers bombed
by terrorists,
PERU:
Dec 17 Twenty-three members
of
the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) took several hundred
people hostage at a party given at the Japanese Ambassador's residence
in Lima, Peru. Among the hostages were several US officials, foreign
ambassadors and other diplomats, Peruvian Government officials, and
Japanese businessmen. The group demanded the release of all MRTA
members in prison and safe passage for them and the hostage takers. The
terrorists released most of the hostages in December but held 81
Peruvians and Japanese citizens for several months.
RUSSIA: October 1 In
Vladivostok, Russia, Assailants
(Believed to be North Korean)attacked and killed a South Korean consul
near his home.
GREECE:
Feb 15 - unidentified
assailants fired a rocket at the U.S. Embassy compound in Athens,
causing minor damage to three diplomatic vehicles and some surrounding
buildings. Circumstances of the attack suggested it was an operation
carried out by the 17 November group. |
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< Moscow
< Athens
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Bosnia:
8 Jun - Team of forty Marines rescues Air Force pilot shot down over
Bosnia-Herzegovina on 2 June
Somalia: 3
Mar - Marines complete withdrawal of
UN force
PAKISTAN - Nov 19. A
suicide bomber drove a
vehicle into the Egyptian Embassy compound in Islamabad, Pakistan,
killing at least 16 and injuring 60 persons.
MOSCOW
- Sept 13 A
rocket-propelled
grenade was fired through the window of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, in
retaliation for U.S. strikes on Serb positions in Bosnia.
OKLAHOMA: April 19 Right-wing
extremists Timothy
McVeigh and Terry Nichols destroyed the Federal Building in Oklahoma
City with a massive truck bomb that killed 166 and injured hundreds.
JAPAN: Mar 20
Twelve persons were killed and 5,700 were injured in a Sarin
nerve gas attack on a crowded subway station in the center of Tokyo,
Japan.
A similar attack occurred nearly simultaneously in the
Yokohama
subway system. The Aum Shinri-kyo cult was blamed for the attacks
PAKISTAN: Mar 8 2
unidentified gunmen killed two U.S.
diplomats and wounded a third in Karachi, Pakistan.
Oklahoma
City - Bombing of Federal Building
19APR
USMC 2 KIA
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Rwanda:
Genocide
12 Apr - Marines
evacuate foreigners from Rwanda.
Russia: Chechen
Revolt
Haiti: Port o Prince 20 Sep -
Army and
1,900 Marines land in Haiti
Somalia:
20 Jun - Marine unit returns to Mogadishu, Somalia, to maintain peace.
Operation
Restore Hope
9Dec92 - 04May94
USMC: KIA 2 WIA 15
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<Moscow
<
Port Au Prince <Mogadishu
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Class 4-94 |
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1993 |
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Barundi:
Civil
War
Russia: Communist
Revolt
Georgia: Civil
War
NEW YORK: Feb
19 The World
Trade Center in New York City was badly damaged
when a car bomb
planted by Islamic terrorists exploded in an underground garage. The
bomb left 6 people dead and 1,000 injured.
KUWAIT: April 14
Iraqi intelligence service attempted
to assassinate former U.S. President George Bush
during a visit to
Kuwait. In retaliation, the U.S. launched a cruise missile attack 2
months later on the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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Tajikistan:
Civil
War
Venezuela: Military
Coup #1
Military
Coup #2
Somalia:
Operation
Restore Hope, 9
Dec - Marines land in
Somalia to rescue
foreigners.
Chad: Failed
Coup
Comoros: Failed
Coup
Thailand:
Bankok Massacre
Georgia: Civil
War
Bosnia: Civil
War
Angola: Civil
War
ARGENTINA: Mar 17
Hizballah claimed
responsibility for a
blast that leveled the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
causing the deaths of 29 and wounding 242.
Algeria:
Civil
War |
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Class 2-92 |
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USSR: Fall
of Soviet Union
Latvia:
Soviet Invasion
Croatia:
War
of Independence
Madagascar:
Palace
Massacre
Somalia:
Civil
War
Thailand:
Military
Coup
Colombia:
M19
Terrorism
Moldova:
Civil
War
Ethiopia:
Civil
War
Iraq:
16
Jan - Operation
Desert Storm begins as Marines fly in first waves.
24
Feb - Marine 1st and
2d divisions, commanded by LtGen Walter Boomer, invade Iraq from Kuwait.
28
Feb - Persian Gulf War
ends after exactly 100 hours 14
Apr - Marines
ordered to IraqTurkey borde providing relief force
protecting Kurds. Bangladesh:
30 Apr - Marines assist millions of homeless after cyclone kills
125,000 in Bangladesh.
Soviet Union:
21 Dec - Soviet Union disbanded
and replaced by Commonwealth of Independent States.
INDIA: May 21 A female member
of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) killed herself, Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and 16 others by detonating an explosive vest
after presenting a garland of flowers to the former Prime Minister
during an election rally in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
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Bonn
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Manilla >
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MSG
Class 5-91
4
Jan - Marine helicopters evacuate 281
people from U.S. Embassy at Mogadishu, Somalia
GERMANY Feb 13 Three
Red Army Faction members fired
automatic rifles from across the Rhine River at the U.S. Embassy
Chancery. No one was hurt.
PHILIPINNES Jan 18-19
Iraqi agents planted bombs at the U.S. Ambassador to
Indonesia’s
home
residence and at the USIS library in Manila.
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Somalia: Revolution
Georgia:
Rebellion
Phillipines:
Army
Rebellion
Trinidad:
Rebellion
Lebanon:
Sria
Assault on Aoun
Transyvania:
Romanian
/ Hungarian riots
Kyrgyzstan:
Osh Riots
Nigeria:
Jukun-Tiv
Conflict
Comoros:
Mercenary
Uprising
Albania:
Anti-gov
demonstrations
Kuwait:
Persian
Gulf War,
Thailand:
Military
Coup
Liberia:
5 Aug - Marines land in Monrovia,evacuating civilians
threatened by civil war.
USMC Col Rich Higgins KIA after 17Feb88 capture by
pro-Iranian terrorists
Persian
Gulf War
02Aug
90 - 03Mar91
USMC:
KIA 24 WIA 92
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Romania: Revolution
Liberia: Civil
War
Panama: Military
Coup
Paraguay: Military
Revolt
Phillipines: Military
Revolt
Senagal: Border
War with Mauritania
China:
Tianamen Square Massacre
Venezuela: Food
Riots
Germany: Reunification
Panama:
US Invasion. 20
Dec - Marines are part of force that
tries to capture Panama's dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega
USMC KIA 1
WIA 3
USMC
Lt Robert Paz Killed by Panamanian forces a roadblock
Germany: Berlin Wall is torn
down
PHILIPPINES: Apr 21 The New
People’s Army (NPA)
assassinated
Colonel James Rowe in Manila. The NPA also assassinated two U.S.
government defense contractors in September. |
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<Panama
City
<Manilla
<Beijing
<Caracus
<Panama
City
< Berlin
<Manilla
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Rocket
Attack on USEMB Santiago - Sgt
Cowen Flag Article in "Defend America"
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17Feb Col
Rich HIggins Captured by Pro-Iranian terrorists (killed 6Jul90)
14Apr
USS Sameul B. Roberts struck by mine in Persian Gulf killing 10 sailors
Japanese Red Army bombing of USO Club
killing US Naval personnel
18Apr
USMC
Helicoptor shot down by Iranian naval forces
28Jun
Navy
Capt William E. Nordeen (Naval Attache killed by car bomb |
< Tehran
< Rome
< Tehran
< Athens |
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Saudi
Arabia: Pro-Iranian
Riot at Grand Mosque
Iraq: Missile
attack
on USS Stark
Thailand
/ Laos: Border
Clash
Grenade
Attack on USO Club in Barcelona Spain killing 1 Sailor / Wounding 5
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Baghdad
Bangkok
Madrid
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Class 3-87 |
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1986 |
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Surname: Guerrilla
War
Niciragua:
Honduras
Invades
South
Yemen: Civil War
Phillipines:
Revolution
Libya: US
retaliation Air Raid
Uganda: Civil
War
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Antitank
Missile fired at US Embassy
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Comoros: Military
Revolt
Haiti:
Revolution
Nigeria:
Coup
Uganda:
Military
Coup
Thailand:
Failed
Coup
14Jun
Greece:
Seabee
Steelworker 2nd Class Robert
Dean Stethem of Underwater
Construction Team 2 was killed by terrorists
30SEP
LEBANON:
In
Beirut,
Lebanon, Sunni terrorists kidnapped four Soviet diplomats. One was
killed but three were later released.
07FEB
MEXICO:
Under the orders of
narcotrafficker Rafael Caro Quintero, Drug Enforcement Administration
agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot were kidnapped, tortured
and executed |
San
Salvador>
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SSgt Handwork
Sgt Weber
Sgt Dickson
Sgt
Kwiatkowski
MSGs
Assasinated by Terrorists
MSG
Class 1985
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1984 |
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Operations
in Beruit End
Lebanon:
CIA
Station
Chief William Buckley
kidnapped, murderred Thailand/Laos:
Border
Clash
Bulgaria:
Turkish
Assimilation
7
Feb GERMANY:
-
LCPL Rudolfo
Hernandez killed in terrorist attack,
31
Jul
- All Marines
except embassy guard
leave Lebanon after 533-day intervention..
INDIA Oct 31
Premier
Indira Gandhi was shot to death
by members of her security force.
25Aug82
- 26Feb84
Lebanon Peacekeeping Mission
USMC KIA 234
WIA 151
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<Bangkok
<Beruit
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MSG
Class 3-84
MSG
Class 5-84
Navy PO1 Michael R. Wagner (DAO Office) Killed 4
MSGs and 2 Sailors wounded in bombing
of US Embassy annex - East Beirut
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1983 |
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PHILIPPINES:
President Aquino Assassination
25May ELSALVADOR:
Lt
Cmdr
Albert Schaufelberger
killed
23Oct - 21Nov Grenada: US
Invasion - Operation Urgent
Fury
USMC
3 KIA 15 WIA
23Oct
Cyprus
CPL Guillermo Sanpedro Killed by terrorists
Oct - Marines and Army intervene in
Grenada, West Indies.
Burma:
North
Korean Agents Bomb Memorial
Nigeria:
Military Coup
Upper
Volta: Military
Coup
Guatemala:
Military
Coup
USSR:
Soviets shoot down KAL 007 Korean Airliner
LEBANON, Oct 23 Simultaneous
suicide truck-bomb attacks were made on American and French compounds
in Beirut, Lebanon. A 12,000-pound bomb destroyed the U.S. compound,
killing 242 Americans, while 58 French troops were killed when a
400-pound device destroyed a French base. Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility
Sudan: Revolution
GREECE:
Nov 15
A U.S. Navy
officer, Capt.
George Tsantes was
shot by
the November 17 terrorist group Capt.
George Tsantes
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Marines
all agree embassy is
haunted. Strange noises, doors closing, books falling off
shelves.
Cpl Robert
V. McMaugh
Killed in Terrorist Bombing of
Embassy (18Apr) Terrorist
bombing of US
Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Casualties included IS1 Daniel
J. Pellegrino and eight Marine
Security Guards, 18 Apr. 1983 23
Oct - Terrorist
truck-bomb blows up headquarters of 1st Battalion, 8th Marines at
Beirut airport, killing 241 Americans, of whom 220 are Marines
US
Embassy Annex Bombed MSG
Class 1-83
MSG
Class 4-83
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07JUN:
MSG
Wounded
MSG
Class 1-82
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1981 |
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Ecuador/Peru:
Border
War
Niciragua:
Anti
Sandinista rebellion
Comoros:
Coup
Egypt:
Anwar
Sadat Assasinated
Chad:
Libya
invades
Poland:
Martial
Law
Seychelles:
Failed Coup
Attempt
31
AUG
WEST
GERMANY The
Red Army exploded a bomb at the U.S. Air Force Base at Ramstein, West
Germany
Bangladesh:
Military
Coup attempt -
President Killed
Ghana:
Military
Coup
Spain:
Military
Coup
Uganda:
Bush
War
SEP
14 LEBANON:
Premier
Bashir
Gemayel was assassinated by a car
bomb parked outside his party’s Beirut headquarters. |
<Cairo
<Warsaw
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17
MAR
Marines
Wounded in Terrorist Attack
OCT
Sgt
Michael Ward
Cpl
Lee Parrish
use Marine van as ambulance to transport American student
infected
with encephalitis to Beijing airport for med evac. (Oct) |
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Liberia:
Coup
Libya: Army
Revolt
El
Salvador: Civil
War
Guatemala: Occupation
of Spanish
Embassy
South
Korea: Kwangju
Uprising
Iran
/ Iraq: Iraq
Invasion - War
24 Apr - Three Marines killed in desert accident during effort to
rescue Teheran hostages.
Maldivies: Coup
attempt
Nigeria: Maitatsine
Riots
Peru: Shining
Path Rebellion
Poland: Solidarity
Movement
Turkey: Military
Coup
Suriname: Military
Coup
Lebanon:
6 Jun - Israel invades Lebanon. Lebanon:
23 Jun - Marines land to evacuate civilians
|
<Guatemala_City
MSGBN>
<Tehran
<Baghdad
<Tehran
<Warsaw
|
MSG
Class 3-80
12 May - MSGs in
San Salvador use tear gas to rescue U.S. ambassador from mob.
Major
Stanford Assumes command of
Company D
|
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|
1979 |
|
Rhodesia:
Civil War Ends |
|
14 FEB SGT
Garry Downey & SGT Kraus wounded
by
guerillas during attacks
Marine
security guards
injured
when leftist protesters attempted
to storm U.S. Embassy, San Salvador, (30 Oct)
04NOV
Chronology
of
the 1979 Attack
on US Embassy in Islamabad,
resulting in the loss of Cpl
Steven J. Crowley
US
Embassy taken over by mob (4Nov)
Cpl.
Steven J. Crowley KIA
Mob burns embassy as
seven Marines defend building
Future
SgtMaj of
the Marine Corps Alford
L. McMichael
arrives
on post at US Embassy Copenhagen
The
Marine Corps assigns
women as embassy guards.
US
Ambassador
/
former Marine (WW2) Adolph
Dubs
kidnapped and murdered in Afghanistan
|
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|
1978 |
|
Iran:
Revolution
Madagascar: Student
Riots
Afghanistan: US
Ambassador Assassinated
Afghanistan: Coup
South Korea:
President Park Assassinated
Nicaragua: Sadanista
Revolution
North/South Yemen: War
Ghana: Military
Coup
Uganda: War
with Tanzania
Italy: Red
Brigade Terrorism
Afghanistan: Marxist
Coup
Guyana:
Jonestown Massacre
Somalia: Majeerteen
Coup Attempt
ITALY: May 16: Premier Aldo Moro was seized by the Red
Brigade
and assassinated 55 days later
.
|
<
Kabul >
|
18APR
Paris
Sgt
Bobby Romero KIA
Embassy Fire
07Aug
Kabul
MSG
Wounded
06Oct Beruit
MSG Wounded
|
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|
1977 |
|
Panama:
Canal
Zone Talks
Egypt: War
with Libya
Pakastan: Military
Coup
Egypt: Anti-gov
riots
Somalia: German
Commandos rescue
hostages
Laos: Hmoung
War
|
<Panama
City
<Cairo
<Cairo |
|
|
|
1976 |
|
Angola:
Civil
War
Begins
WASHINGTON:
Sept 21
Exiled
Chilean
Foreign Minister Orlando
Letelier was killed by a car-bomb in Washington
UGANDA:
June 27 Members
of the Baader-Meinhof Group and
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) seized an Air
France airliner and its 258 passengers. They forced the plane to land
in Uganda. On July 3 Israeli commandos successfully rescued the
passengers.
|
MSG
Bn>
MSG
Bn>
|
CO: Col H. M. Koppenhaver Company
D / MSGDETs
Support Panama Canal Zone Talks
|
|
|
1975 |
|
Cambodia:
Civil
War Ends 12
Apr - Marines evacuate foreigners before
Khmer Rouge seize Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
|
<Phnom
Penh
<Saigon
<Santiago
|
LCpl
Charles McMahon Jr.
LCpl
Darwin L.
Judge
KIA providing
security for Defense Attache
Office, at Tan Son Nhut Airport (29Apr)
Leatherneck
Article:
The Last Casualties (LCpl Judge / Cpl McMahon)
Leatherneck
Article:
Fall of Saigon
MSG
PPSU Saigon -
Protecting Ambassador
Martin during Fall of Saigon
Saigon
Evacuation
Vietnam Conflict Ends
30 Apr - 4th Marines under Gen
Alfred M. Gray (29th Commandant)
complete helicopter operation
evacuating personel from embassy and Tan Son Nhut airfield.
2 Jul - North and South Viet Nam united as Socialist Republic of Viet
Nam with capital at Hanoi.
|
LCpl
Judge
 pl
Cpl McMahon
|
|
1974 |
|
Ethiopia: Civil
War Begins
Iraq:
Kurdish
Revolt Begins
Portugal:
bloodless
coup
Madagascar:
Military Coup Attempt
Washington: 8
Aug - President Nixon
resigns; President Ford pardons him.
|
<Baghdad
|
U.S.
Ambassador to Cyprus
Rodger P. Davies
and his Greek Cypriot secretary were shot and killed by snipers during
a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia
19
Aug - Marines defend embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, after mob kills U.S.
ambassador
|
|
|
1973 |
|
Syria:
Demonstrations
Lebanon:
Israeli
Raid on Beirut
Afghanistan: Republican Coup
Rwanda:
Coup
Chile
- Military Dictatorship begins
Greece: Military
Coup
Pakastan:
Balochisten Insergency begins
01MAR
SUDAN:
U.S.Ambassador
to
Sudan Cleo A. Noel
and other diplomats were assassinated
at the Saudi Arabian Embassy
in Khartoum by members of the Black September organization.
MEXICO May 4 - U.S.
Consul
General in Guadalajara Terrence Leonhardy was kidnapped by members of
the People’s Revolutionary Armed Forces |
<Beruit
<Kabul
<Santiago
<Athens
|
|
|
|
1972 |
|
Phillippines:
Moro
Rebellion begins
Madagascar:
Student
Unrest
Ecuador:
Military
Coup
Burundi:
Tutsi
Genocide
Colombia:
M19
Terrorist Group Begins activities
El
Salvador: Coup
Attempt
Lithuania:
Rebellion
NORTHER
IRELAND: July 21An
Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb
attacks killed eleven people and injure 130 in Belfast, Northern
Ireland. Ten days later, three IRA car bomb attacks in the village of
Claudy left six dead.
WEST
GERMANY:
Sept 5 -
PLO
Massacre of Athletes at
Olympics
Eight
Palestinian "Black September" terrorists
seized eleven Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village in Munich, West
Germany. In a bungled rescue attempt by West German authorities, nine
of the hostages and five terrorists were killed. |
<Manilla>
Managua
>
|
Marine Security Guard
Sidney T. James wounded during an attack
by a radical communist group
MSG Norm Root awarded Navy
USMC Medal for Heroism after earthquake in Managua
|
|
|
1971 |
|
Bolivia:
Rightist
Revolt Ceylon: PLF
Rebellion
India
/ Pakastan:
Border
War
Egypt: Corrective
Revolution
Madagascar:
Monima Revolt
Thailand: Coup
Rhodesia:
Civil War Begins
Vietnam: 25 Jun -
Last Marine ground troops leave. |
|
Sgt
Charles W. Tuberville killed
and other Marine
Security Guards were
wounded during a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy softball game in
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
MSGDet
Sofia supports SALT II Talks |
|
|
1970 |
|
Phillippines:
- NPA
Rebellion Begins
Jordan: Black
September Terrorist Campaign / Jordan
Cambodia:Civil
War Begins 30
Apr -
President Nixon orders troops into Cambodia. Ivory
Coast:
Bete
Rebellion - Ivory Coast
Syria:
- Military
Coup
Syria:
- Terrorism
Sponsor 1970-86
Iran: supported
coup in Iraq
fails
Poland:
Revolt in Poland |
<Manilla
<Tehran
<Warsaw
|
MSG
Class 1-70
MSG
Class 2-70
MSG
Class 3-70
MSG
Class 4-70
MSG
Class 5-70
MSG
Class 6-70
|
|
|
1969 |
|
El
Salvador - Honduras: Border
War
China
/ USSR: Border
Clash
Panama: Coup#1
/ Coup#2
Sudan: Military
Coup
Libya: Military
Coup
Middle East: War
of Attrition
Guyana: US
Citizens lead rebellion from Brazil
Honduras / El Salvador: Soccer
War
|
<San
Salvador
<Tegucigalpa
|
CO:
LtCol Tom D Parsons MSG
Class 1-69
MSG
Class 3-69
MSG
Class 4-69
MSG
Class 5-69
MSG
Class 6-69
BRAZIL: Sept 3 -
US
Ambassador Charles
Burke
Elbrick was kidnapped by the
Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.
JAPAN: July 30 U.S.
Ambassador to Japan A.H.
Meyer was attacked by a
knife-wielding Japanese citizen
|
|
|
1968 |
|
Panama: Military
Coup
Peru: Military
Coup
Iraq:
Ba'ath
Party Coup
Mali:
Military
Coup
Yemen:
Civil
War North
Korea: USS
Pueblo, captured
Vietnam: 20
Jan - North
Vietnam vs 26th Marines
for Khe Sanh.
31
Jan - Tet
offensive begins
5
Jul - Marines
withdraw from Khe Sanh base.
16-23
Jul Izmir, Turkey
19
Sailors from USS Columbus & other ships in fleet wounded during
anti-American riots |
<Seoul
|
MSGBn CO:
LtCol
Nate. L. Adams
Cpl
James C. Marshall KIA-Vietnam VC
Assault
on US Embassy
28AUG
Guatemala
U.S.
Ambassador to
Guatemala John
Gordon Mein was
murdered by a
rebel faction when gunmen forced his
official car off the road in Guatemala City and raked the vehicle with
gunfire.
|
Cpl Marshall |
|
1967 |
|
Egypt
/ Israel: 6
day War
Congo: Katanga
Revolt
Greece / Turkey: Cypriot
Crisis
Cambodia: Tax
Revolt
Biafra: Secession
from Nigeria
Algeria: Morroccan
Border Clash
Greece: Military
Coup |
DOS>
|
Memorandum
signed 22
US State
Code 4802 MSG
Class 5-67
MSG Bn formed with 4 Company's
A, B, C, D
|
|
|
1966
|
|
Central
African Rep: Coup
Ghana: Coup
Nigeria: Coup
Namibia: War
of Independence
Dominican
Republic:
28 Apr - 6th
Marines land in the Dominican Republic.
|
|
MSG
Class 3-66
MSG
Class 4-66
MSG
Class 5-66
MSG
Class 6-66
|
LCpl Ashe
|
|
1965 |
|
Bolivia:
Workers
Uprising
Chad: Rebellion
Congo: Coup
Dominican
Republic: Civil
War South Vietnam: Military
Coup
South Vietnam: 8
Mar - 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade lands at Da Nang
India
/
Pakastan: 2nd
Kashmir War
South Yemen: Civil
Unrest |
|
CO: LtCol
Forest J. Hunt MSG
Class 1965
MSG
Class 7-65
|
|
|
1964 |
|
|
Stanleyville>
|
Operation
Flagpole MSG's
involved in Belgian paratrooper rescue operation "Red Dragon".
MSG
Class 2-64
|
|
|
1963 |
|
Honduras:
Border Clash with Guatemala President
Kennedy Assassinated
Vietnam: 2
Nov - Coup topples
President Ngo Dinh
Diem of South Viet Nam. |
|
CO: LtCol
Michael J. Dunbar |
|
|
1962 |
|
Cuba: US/Soviet
Missle Crisis
Vietnam:
15 Apr - Marine helicopter squadron (HMM-362) arrives in Mekong Delta
of South Viet Nam.
|
|
CO: LtCol
Robert C. Carlock MSG
Class 3-62
|
|
|
1961 |
|
Angola:
War
of Independance begins
Cuba:
Bay
of Pigs Crisis
Invasion
Abandoned
Germany: Berlin
Wall Crisis
Ecuador: Coup
Guatemala: Civil
War begins 61-96
Laos: Civil
War
Nepal: Rebellion
Nigeria: Civil War
Nicaragua: Sadinista insurgency begins 61-78
South Korea: Military
Coup
El Salvador: Military
Coup
Iraq: Kurd
revolt
Vietnam - Assassination
of President Ngo Dinh Diem - President Kennedy orders 400
Special
Forces troops to Vietnam
|
Stanleyville>
|
Ambassador
Gullion took half of MSG Det to secret meeting at Kitona Air
Base (Congo).
Amb Gullion Met with Katanaga Premier M.
Tshombe and Central Government's PM Adoula. MSG's tasked as
body
Guards for Tshombee Former
MSG -Larry Bell's Mercenary Congo Website
|
|
|
1960 |
|
Guatemala:
Army
Revolt
France: Border clashes with Morocco
China: Border clash with India over Himalayas
Kuwait: British
stop attempt by Iraq to annex Kuwait
Congo: Civil
War /
Military
Coup
Laos: Military
Coup
Ethiopia / Samalia: Border Clashes
Ethiopia: Military Coup defeated
Algeria: French Army Coup fails
Salvador: Military
Coup
South Africa: Sharpville
Massacre - gov forces kill 67 demonstrators
South Vietnam Military Coup Defeated
Albania: Conflict
with Soviet Union
Korea: Students
Revolution
Nicaragua: Gov
deteats rebel invasion from Costa Rica
Soviet Union: U2
Plane shot down, Pilot imprisoned as spy.
|
MSG
Bn>
|
CO: LtCol
Eugene H. Haffey
|
|
|
1959 |
|
Ceylon:
Prime
Minister Assasinated
Rwanda: Revolution
/ Independance
Guatemala: Rebellion begins (59-74)
Iraq: Pan
Arab revolt
Cuba: 16 Jan - Military
Coup, Fidel Castro overthrows dictator
Fulgencio Batista.
Laos: Pathet
Lao insurgency |
|
MSG
Class 1959
|
|
|
1958 |
|
Burma:
Coup
Colombia:Civil War
Algeria: French
officers revolt
Iraq: Military
Coup
Lebenon: Civil
War
15 Jul - 2d
Marines land near Beirut and seize
airport at Lebanese government's request Sudan:
Military
Coup
Thailand: Border clash with Cambodia
Venezuela: Military
Coup
|
<Baghdad
<Bangkok
<Caracus
|
|
|
|
1957 |
|
Oman:
British
assist Gov in quelling revolt
Syria: War
Turkey/Syria: Border Clashes
Poland: Warsaw Riots
|
|
6
RMO/742 MSG
*MSG count reduced
.
Riot
at US Embassy - MSG Injured (24May) |
|
|
1956 |
|
Egypt:
Suez
War.
Cameroon:
Rebellion
Cuba:
Castros Rebellion
Honduras: Uprising
Honduras: Coup
Hungary: Revolt
against USSR
Argentina: Peronist
rebels revolt
Poland: Worker
Riots
Burma: China invades and takes northern provinces from Burma
|
>
|
CO: LtCol
R.
E. Roach Reg
#2 CO: Capt
Forest J. Hunt
MSGs
helpto evacuate 1300 Americans
from Cairo, Alexandria and Port Said. Due
to the
war
Region #2 headquarters relocated from Cairo to Beirut.
6 RMO 850 MSG's
84th Congress repealed Section 562 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946
and adopted Public Law 1028 (70-A Statutes-at-Large
374).
Legal basis for
the Marine security Guard Program.:Title 10 USC 5983,
“Handbook for Marine Security Guards”
published
MSGs provide security for the American delegation to the 10th
Anniversary Conference of the United Nations at San Francisco,
7 Jan - Marine
Security Guard fights off mob at
consulate in East Jerusalem.
|
|
|
1955 |
|
Argentina:
Military Revolt South Vietnam: Gov
quels bubist rebellion Singapore:
Riots as communist attempt to take government - "Black
Thursday" Niciragua:
Somoza Assasinated |
MSG
Bn>
DOS>
|
USMC
to DOS: New Draft
Agreement in 1953
which was not acceptable to the Department of Defense,
returned,
revised but
unsigned.
,“1955
Memorandum
of
Agreement between the Department of Defense and Department of
State”,
Signed:
SecDEFCharles E.
Wilson,
SecDOS
John Foster Dulles
|
|
|
1954
|
|
Algeria:
War of Independence
Guatemala: Revolution
Paraguay: Coup
|
MSG
Bn> |
4
Week Marine Security Guard course, training 40-50 MSG's/month
|
|
|
1953 |
|
Cuba:
Castro
attempts overthrow of Batista
Guyana: British
overthrow Government Columbia: Military
Coup East Germany:
Uprising
Syria: Druze
Attempt overthrow of Government
Morocco: Rebellion
Laos: Rebellion
Iran: US
/ Britan fail in Coup attemp- Military Coup succeeds
Shah returns
Algeria: Civil
War
Guatemala: US
Sponsored Revolution
Paraguay:
Coup
Korea: War
ends 27 Jul -
Armistice
signed at Panmunjon, Korea. Washington:
Iwo
Jima War Memorial dedicated at
Arlington Cemetary |
|
CO: WO E.P. Clarke CO:
Maj.
Frank P. Tatum
CO:
Col
John K. Hogan
Eastern Region: Capt Powell
57
Added to cover
Attaches with offices located in
buildings separate from the chancery buildings proper.
6 RMO and 676 MSG's
|
|
|
1952 |
|
Bolivia:
MNR Revolution
Egypt:
Police Mutany - Riots
Egypt:
Free Officers Coup
Tunisa:
Civil War
Lebanon:
Coup
Cuba: Coup
Thailand: gov
stops Chinese coup plot
Kenya:
Mau Mau War
Washington: 28 Jun - commandant given equal status on Joint Chiefs of
Staff |
<LaPaz
<Cairo
<Tunis
<Havana
<Bangkok
|
Regional
Marine Officers authorized to serve at DOS Regional Security Offices:
Paris, Cairo, and Manila.
RMO Assigned to Rio de Janeiro
125 MSG's added a
.
|
|
|
1951 |
|
Argentina:
Military
Revolt Bolivia: Military
Coup
Thailand:
Coup
Panama:
Coup
Korea:
9 Apr - Truman
relieves Gen MacArthur.
20 Jun - 1st Marine Division vs North Korea - "the
Punchbowl" |
|
CO:
Capt. Lois J.
Sartor
MSG
Strength increased to 675
Married Non-commissioned Officer-in-Charge approved
|
|
|
1950 |
|
Washington DC: Attempted
assassination of President Trument
Korea: Korean
War
begins 1950-53 25
Jun - North Korean forces invade South
Korea.
2 Aug - 1st
Marine Provisional Brigade lands at Pusan
15 Sep - 1st Marine Div assault landing at Inchon.
2 Nov - Marines vs China at Chosin Reservoir.
23 Nov - 7th Marines win Yudam-ni.
28 Nov - USMC vs 8 China Divisions
Dec 1 2nd MarDiv breakout
escaping Chinese trap
|
<Tirana
DOS>
DOS>
<Caracus
DOS>
|
40 additional Marines
Requested to carry out guard duties at 8 European Military
Defense Assistance missions DOS adds 40
DAP Guards Followed by 24 Marines
Outbreak of hostilities in Korea
Period of rapid expansion which so enlarged the scope MSG Program
The Department of Defense / USMC accepts responsibility from DOS for
the guarding of Foreign Service posts abroad
MSG Strength increased to 650 enlisted |
|
|
1949
|
|
HQMC:
18 Nov - Corps orders all male Marines,
regardless of race, be assigned to vacancies in any unit.
|
MSG
Bn> MSG
Bn>
Bangkok>
Tangier> MSG
Bn>
DOS>
DOS>
|
CO:
Capt. Gene M.
Hoover
83 Marines were assigned to the Foreign Service Institute for training,
First Fifteen Marines departed Washington on their assignments
Bangkok/6
Tangier/9
HQMC designates Casual Company to administrate Unit
A letter of Instruction outlining use of MSG within Foreign Service .
303 Marines on Post around World
Commandant of the Marine Corps :
declaration stating MSG's serve under DOS Security Officer
|
|
|
|
|
HQMC:
10 Nov - First
eight enlisted women are sworn in as Regular Marines. The following
summer, first black women Marines enlist. |
|
USMC
Agrees to
participate, stipulating
that Marines report under Navy Attaché Command at each post.
(May) 300 Marines was
authorized by Acting Secretary of the Navy John N. Brown
President
Truman approved
a plan for Marines detachments in civilian clothes assigned
to
posts when the Secretary of State should determine that circumstances
warranted. (5Nov)
“1948
Memorandum of
Agreement”
DOS
to
SecNAV: Memorandum of Agreement subject of Marine
Guards.
-SecNAV Sullivan signed the Agreement on December 15, 1948, -Under
Secretary Robert A. Lovett signed for DOS 18
Jul - Twelve Marines at consulate in Jerusalem begin modern Marine
Security Guard program. Memories
from
MSG - Bill Furey
|
|
|
1947
|
|
|
DOS>
|
Legal
Issues prevent War
Department from assisting DOS with request for Security Guards, Dept.
of
Navy tagged (8 Sept) |
|
|
1946 |
|
|
DOS>
|
Foreign Service Act of 1946
Sec.
562. The
Secretary of the
Navy authorized at request of Secretary of State, to assign
enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve as custodians under
supervision of the principal officer at an embassy, legation or
consulate |
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