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Originally Posted by Icelander
During the same day?
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Didn't embassy guard Marines assist in the defense of the embassy in Nanking China in '49 (wasn't Dan Daly a guard at the embassy when he won his first MoH)? With the evacuation of Saigon in '75? The protection of the embassy in Manila, Philippines in '89?
Then there is the US Embassy to Liberia. The embassy in Monrovia has been at or near evacuation in '90, '96, '98, and '03. IIRC the embassy guards engaged in a protracted firefight with rebels in '90.