The Marine Corps Embassy Security Groups, formerly Marine Security Guard Battalion, and also known as Marine Security Guards, is a battalion-sized organization of U.S. Marines.
In the face of daily threats worldwide, U.S. diplomacy plays a central and crucial role. This is the main reason why Marine Security Guards, for over six decades now, have worked closely with the U.S. Department of State and its Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) to protect and safeguard American diplomacy around the world.
The core mission of the MSGs is to provide internal security services at U.S. diplomatic and consular facilities abroad, to prevent the compromise of classified U.S. Government information and equipment under a range of circumstances, up to and including hostile assaults.
Along with their primary mission is their secondary, which is to provide protection for U.S. citizens and property located within those official U.S. facilities during situations that require urgent action. They react immediately to crises large and small, including demonstrations, bomb threats, fires, nuclear/biological/chemical threats, and facility intrusion attempts.
Stated duties make MSGs as a solid line of defense for American diplomacy.
Marine Security Guards are stationed at different U.S. embassies around the globe. Every MSG stationed at an embassy entrance is looked upon as a symbol of American values of integrity, courage, loyalty and commitment.
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