{"id":32575,"date":"2022-09-21T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/09\/21\/tempo-ramps-up-for-security-guard-marines-as-covid-restrictions-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:55:37","slug":"tempo-ramps-up-for-security-guard-marines-as-covid-restrictions-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2022\/09\/21\/tempo-ramps-up-for-security-guard-marines-as-covid-restrictions-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo ramps up for security guard Marines as COVID restrictions fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2022\/09\/12\/marriage-tattoo-shifts-popular-for-marine-embassy-security-applicants\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit<\/a> is on track to execute a full load of deployments for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as the unit matures, other Marine elements are starting to take greater notice of its work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are on track to execute approximately<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/11\/13\/heres-why-state-department-agents-joined-on-the-26th-marine-expeditionary-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 70 missions this year, <\/a>which will return us to our operational tempo pre-COVID levels,\u201d Col. Kelly Frushour, commanding officer of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/05\/26\/3-marine-security-guards-nominated-for-valor-award-after-jamaican-bomb-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Marine Corps Embassy Security Group<\/a>, told Marine Corps Times in an interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frushour, a career public affairs officer, became the first woman to lead the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group when she took command in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2022\/09\/12\/marriage-tattoo-shifts-popular-for-marine-embassy-security-applicants\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4287091-1.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Marriage, tattoo shifts popular for Marine embassy security applicants<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A 2021 change that allows a small number of married Marines to serve on Marine security guard duty has been wildly popular.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pandemic travel restrictions and host country limitations had severely curtailed the Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit\u2019s typical high deployment tempo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unit, established in 2013 following the deadly attack on the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2016\/04\/03\/here-s-where-the-marines-have-stood-up-new-embassy-guard-posts-after-benghazi\/\" target=\"_blank\">consulate in Benghazi, Libya,<\/a> exists to shore up embassy security amid threat or unrest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But 13-Marine teams also regularly deploy to embassies ahead of VIP visits and to conduct proactive security validation assessments. In a typical year, teams are deploying almost constantly to augment the 183 Marine security detachments at embassies in 148 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe average dwell time between MSAU missions is about seven-and-a-half days,\u201d Frushour said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a high of 92 missions in 2017, however, Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit teams did just 22 in 2020 as COVID-19 swept the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021, Frushour said, the Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit had 36 deployments. The unit has surpassed that number already in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To date, Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit teams have deployed nearly 500 times since the unit stood up, with larger contingents pushing out to support embassy evacuations or to ramp up security in places with threats of violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, a 40-Marine contingent pushed out to Juba, South Sudan, as the embassy evacuated nonessential staff amid threats of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit Marines, who differ from Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams (FAST) in that they\u2019re considered diplomatic assets and directly responsive to the needs of the State Department, do receive more training than regular Marine Security Guard watchstanders, which has provided the chance to stay busy during the deployment slump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit-assigned Marines get seven extra weeks in of training in marksmanship, medical skills, communication and tactics, as well as a two-week collective training cycle at the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center in Blackstone, Virginia, which includes the Department of State\u2019s High Risk Environment Firearms Course and enhanced room clearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re also offered the chance to take seven optional advanced individual skills courses in topics such as foreign weapons instruction, survival, evasion, resistance and escape, or SERE, and counter-threat driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the unit approaches its ten-year anniversary, the Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit is becoming a more well-known and established capability inside the Marine Corps \u2015 and that\u2019s leading to better collaboration with other units who have been less familiar with what it offers in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, Frushour said, she is seeing the leaders of deployed Marine Expeditionary Units pay more attention to when Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit teams are dispatched in their region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf MSAU is getting sent somewhere, it can be an indicator of things maybe not going well in that part of the world, and [a MEU commander] can put folks on alert: \u2018Hey, this is going on, we might have to go do something to help,\u2019\u201d Frushour said. \u201cSo more units are starting to use MSAU deployments as an information requirement to prepare for what they might get asked to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit and the larger embassy security group have also been conducting more integrated training with a range of units from Marine Expeditionary Operations Training Groups to MEUs and diplomatic security and foreign affairs personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConsidering recent events with Kabul and Kyiv, it is increasingly critical to reinforce and rehearse our interagency interoperability,\u201d Frushour said. \u201cWhile our core training and readiness focuses on the MSG mission that enables them to stand \u2018Post One\u2019 and all other mission specific posts while reacting to emergencies and threats, our headquarters has coordinated valuable engagements with the interagency and joint force in training, mission rehearsal exercises, and deployment certifications.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While normal operations have largely resumed for all Marine security guards, there are still a few nations and diplomatic locations, largely in the Pacific, that don\u2019t allow region commanders to visit deployed Marine security detachments. 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