 The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan came under fire this morning, and the attack in Benghazi Libya that killed four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador. The detachment commanders and the watch centers both report in. We have almost two simultaneous courses running at the same time. The detachment commanders are the staff and COs that lead the detachments at these embassies. The watch centers are the ones, the sergeant and blow, who perform the day-to-day operations at the embassies, such as standing post one and taking care of all the collateral duties that they're assigned at their embassies. It's been a week long of shooting the M9, the M870 shotgun, and the M4. These Marines need to know how to employ their weapons in any kind of dangerous situation. We do a great job here at MSG school teaching the Marines how to train and use their weapons. My name is Sergeant Elliott, and I want to become a Marine Security Guard because I want to represent the Marine Corps worldwide. I want to take on responsibilities. This MSG program allows me to be a small unit leader. If they ever have someone inside the embassy that they need to subdue, search, control, they're going to have to handcuff that individual. In the event that we have someone that's very large, that needs to be controlled, subdued, a Marine with a smaller stature can use that baton in order to take down that subject and to control them to remove them from the embassy. And that's one of the great things about here is the day's not the same every single day. So one day we might start out with a PowerPoint class, clearing rooms, and the next day I might be learning hand coughing. It's pretty nice to be doing something different every single day. The Infamous Board Week, the Marines have to come in and they have to stand before a board of five individuals that vote on whether they should stay or go. And a lot of that has to do with how their performance was at school, their background, their personal life. And then as the instructor advisor, through my observations as a detachment commander and the watch standards, I also make a determination of what my recommendation is for them to go out to post or to not have to return to the fleet. Bombs stations, we run department of state tactics for our movement inside and outside of buildings. So we train all the Marines to their standards, whether they're going around corners, entering rooms, searching for bombs, moving exterior inside the embassy if they had to, responding to the embassy. We have numerous stations set up to tease the Marines that. And they run through probably 40-plus hours of response training. When I was in Jamaica, we had gangs opening fire outside of the embassy, having gang fights. We had to respond to all those Marines. And it's the training that they had here at MSG School which prepared them for the situations they had to respond to. Look, nice temperature in here. One, two, three. One, two, three. The OC spray in the gas chamber is probably the most difficult part of this school. I've never been OC sprayed. Honestly, I can't control anything. Execute! Get back! All of us ready? Strike! Get back! All of us ready? Get back! Oh, there we go. OC, OC, OC. How many are you gonna hold up? Two. OC sprayed in the face. It's definitely an eye-opening experience. And they've never experienced that before. And they still have to execute all the techniques. They have to be able to hit, kick, punch, take down an opponent. These are batons. And they've never really had to do that before. So it's a new experience for them. So it tests their ability. And it's also a huge confidence builder. I think that's probably one of the worst things I've ever done in my life. When people walk inside the embassy, we're the first people they see. And not all the time you're gonna be in deltas or charlies, you still need to have that professional appearance. They get suits. And then they will also have to purchase part of the state attire. They have to look very dignified. And so we want them to dress very professional, which would be a pair of dockers with nice shoes and a polo. I received orders to Lisbon, Portugal. I'm actually really excited about it. Really what it comes down to is the needs of the Marine Corps. And it makes it exciting for me because I don't know where I'm gonna be going next. And I didn't know where I was going the first time. It makes it kind of exciting, keeps me on my toes.