Each time Reece passed through security into an embassy complex, he couldn’t help but think just how exposed those brave young Marines were as they stood their posts. Reece remembered the story his father had told him about Marine Corporal James Conrad Marshall, who was killed defending the embassy in Saigon during the Tet Offensive in 1968. And he thought of Lance Corporal Robert “Bobby” McMaugh, who was killed along with sixty-two others on April 18, 1983, when the embassy in Beirut was targeted by a terrorist using a truck bomb in an attack that foreshadowed what was to come that October.
