美陸戰隊駐台內幕

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楊舒媚, 台美關係大突破 陸戰隊駐台內幕. 壹週刊, Feb 22, 2017 (available now).
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/rea ... w/20170222/1061126/

Note:
(a) 裴士蓮  Sheila Paskman (美國在台協會文化新聞組組長暨發言人, 2010-2013, who was, from 2013 to 2016, "賴比瑞亞擔任副大使" according to news sources in Taiwan, but deputy chief of mission" according to US Department of State.

Deputy Chief of Mission. US Department of State, undated.
https://www.state.gov/courses/rs401/page_24.htm
("The DCM is like the COO of the Embassy, and acts as Charge d'Affaires (person in charge) whenever the Ambassador is absent")

There is only one DCM in an embassy.
(b) 陳郁仁 and 顏振凱, 美空運工人來台蓋AIT新館. Tw: Apple Daily, Apr 5, 2011.
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/app ... e/20110405/33296693

(c) White House
(i) White House Military Office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Military_Office
(section 2 Operations: White House sentries — Four Marine Corps non-commissioned officers who act as a ceremonial guard outside the West Wing of the White House)
(ii) It is Secret Service that actually guard the White House.

Guarding the White House. White House Historical Association, undated.
https://www.whitehousehistory.or ... ing-the-white-house

Quote:

"1853-1857  Franklin Pierce became the first president to have a full-time bodyguard Thomas O'Neil

"1906  Congress passed the Sundry Civil Expenses Act for 1907, providing funds for Presidential protection by the Secret Service.

"1912  The Secret Service began protecting the president-elect.

"June 6, 1968  Congress passed Public Law 90-331, authorizing protection of major presidential and vice presidential candidates and nominees, and of widows of presidents until death, or remarriage, and their children until age 16.  [Robert F Kennedy was assassinated that day.]

(d)
(i) Marine Security Guard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Security_Guard
(ii) Philip Ewing and Jonathan Allen, Stevens killed at site with no Marines. Politic, Sept 12, 2012.
http://www.politico.com/story/20 ... h-no-marines-081134