QUANTICO, Va. — A 19-year-old Marine corporal is looking forward to increased pay, foreign travel, enhanced promotion opportunities, and being used as leverage after his embassy is attacked and he's taken hostage, sources confirmed.
"I've just had this dream ever since I was a kid of serving my country and guarding those big embassies," said Cpl. Nathan Miller, who passed Marine Security Guard school earlier this month. "Now I can live up to the storied job description of the MSG: Protect classified information and, when all else fails, get kidnapped and beaten by a hostile crowd of protesters in every clime and place."
While the job description of an MSG may not sound glamorous at first look, it's a step up from other positions at embassies around the world. CIA officers for example, serve at embassies so they can be tortured and thrown in a shallow grave, while the main role of a Diplomatic Security officer is to make personnel security recommendations that will be largely ignored by the State Department.
With their special role abroad, MSGs receive a pay increase to offset their future captivity. They also stay in their own complex, called the "Marine House," have drivers and chefs, and receive promotion points that make them eligible for the next rank even while they are held by terrorists and other psychopaths.
