Post One: True Stories from Marine Embassy Guards

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Damascus to Tokyo: An MSG smuggled out of Syria & Reagan marks the Marines' Birthday in Japan

September 22, 2026

Retired Master Sergeant Lance Brown was a Marine Security Guard in Damascus in 1982 — a busy way station for envoys headed into war-torn Beirut fifty miles away. In this episode, he describes standing post at a small, exposed embassy with just nine Marines, the intel warning of thousands of Iranians about to storm the walls, and the two negligent discharges that put holes in a door handle and a wall.He recounts watching a reporter get chewed out for calling Secretary of State George Shultz an...

On Duty in Beirut: "If you receive fire, you'll return fire."

September 15, 2026

In 1980, Joe Johns was a Marine Security Guard at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut — an old hotel on the Corniche, protected by little more than sandbags, a blast wall, and thirty Americans' worth of resolve. He arrived with one order from his battalion commander: if you receive fire, you'll return fire. Within his first hour in the embassy, the React alarm sent the detachment scrambling into position.In this episode, Joe walks through a year of standing post in one of the most dangerous cities in ...

September 11, 2001: On Post When the Towers Fell

September 08, 2026

On September 11, 2001, Marine Security Guard Mark McCabe was standing post at the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia. In this episode, he takes us inside that day from behind post one — the local guard chief walking past with a warning, the RSO rushing in to react the detachment, and piecing together the attacks from blurry images loading on a slow embassy computer while his fellow Marines watched it unfold live on a TV out in town. Hours later, a bomb threat came in, and a normal Tuesday became a day n...