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<blockquote data-quote="SMS" data-source="post: 1899337" data-attributes="member: 42">Mitch, I didn&#039;t look through all the pages of this thread to see if your question was answered...but in short, this was a Consulate and not all Consulates have a contingent of Marine Security Guards (MSG).An important point, for the Libya incident AND the Egypt incident, to everyone complaining about the Marines not stacking the bodies on the wall, is that even if a facility has a contingent of MSGs....the MSG&#039;s primary mission is the internal security of the facility.&nbsp; The force is not large and only in extreme circumstances would the MSGs use kinetic force on the exterior grounds.&nbsp; They will not be ordered to open fire on a crowd of punks climbing an exterior wall and burning a flag.&nbsp; This policy pre-dates the Obama admin and has been SOP for a long long time. In the case of the Libya incident, from what I&#039;ve seen the attacking force was large.&nbsp; A half a dozen Marines might have changed the equation, but it still would&#039;ve been ugly.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure this target was picked precisely because it didn&#039;t have a large American security presence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SMS, post: 1899337, member: 42"] Mitch, I didn't look through all the pages of this thread to see if your question was answered...but in short, this was a Consulate and not all Consulates have a contingent of Marine Security Guards (MSG). An important point, for the Libya incident AND the Egypt incident, to everyone complaining about the Marines not stacking the bodies on the wall, is that even if a facility has a contingent of MSGs....[B]the MSG's primary mission is the [I]internal security[/I] of the facility[/B]. The force is not large and only in extreme circumstances would the MSGs use kinetic force on the exterior grounds. They will not be ordered to open fire on a crowd of punks climbing an exterior wall and burning a flag. This policy pre-dates the Obama admin and has been SOP for a long long time. In the case of the Libya incident, from what I've seen the attacking force was large. A half a dozen Marines might have changed the equation, but it still would've been ugly. I'm sure this target was picked precisely because it didn't have a large American security presence. [/QUOTE]

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