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MARINE CORPS
EMBASSY SECURITY GROUP
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GROUP INFORMATION
1950 Marine Corps Guards,
DOS Casual Company, HQMC HQBn,
1951 Company F, Headquarters Battalion (Headerson Hall)
1967 Marine Security Guard Battalion (Henderson Hall)
1979 Moved to MCB Quantico
1987 Marine Corps Development and Education Command
2002 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (Anti-Terroism)
2006 Marine Corps Combat Development Command
2007 Marine Corps Embassy Security Command
2007 Marine Corps Embassy Security Group.
DVIDS: MCESG
MCESG: Commands and Regions
Together We Served: MCESG
Dept. of State: US Marines and Embassies Historic Ties
Amazon (Book): The Marine Corps and the State Department: Enduring Partners in United States Foreign Policy, 1798-2007
2024
Commanding Officer: Colonel Clifford MaGee
Executive Officer: Lt. Colonel Jacob E. Hoskins
Senior Enlisted Leader: Sergeant Major Vincent Cruz
(2009) Det Commander Kinshasa, DR Congo
(2010), Det Commander Beijing
(2011) Detachment Commander of the Year
(CMC) Marine Security Guard of the Year Runner-up
MSG Det Beiging -MSG Detachment of the Year.
2022
Commanding Officer: Colonel Kelly Frushour
Executive Officer:
Senior Enlisted Leader:
2016
01 April - Marine Times: Here's where the Marines have stood up new embassy guard posts after Benghazi
2014
Commanding Officer: Colonel Rollin Brewster
Senior Enlisted Leader: Sgt Maj. Juan C. Alvarado
2013
JULY: The Marine Security Augmentation Unit, or MSAU, stood up in as a quick reaction force that can augment MSG Detachments
1991
Commanding Officer/Director of MSG School
Colonel Michael F. Shisler
1 January - 20 June 1991
Colonel Thomas G. Harkins
21 June - 31 December 1991
Executive Officer
Lieutenant Colonel James M. Guerin
1 January - 3 August 1991
Company F (Nairobi, Kenya)
Lieutenant Colonel Mark H. Biser
1 January - 31 December 1991
Battalion Sergeant Major
Sergeant Major Clyde Cropper
1 January - 20 June 1991
1985
Commanding Officer: Colonel Walter E. Boomer
Colonel was selected in April 1986 for promotion to brigadier general. He was advanced to that grade on 2 June 1986,
