The Democratic party is racking up an impressive record of lost embassies and embassy personnel.

Corsair above has it correctly regarding Embassy Marines. I was one and served at three Embassies.

Basically, your under the control of your NCOIC, the RSO (if the Embassy has one stationed at your Embassy) and ultimately the Ambassador.

Basically, the Ambassadors are appointees of the President or in some cases career State Dept. folks.

If the Ambassador wants to surrender the Embassy, e.g., Tehran 1979, you're done. Marines have no choice.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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You’re the President: What would you do right now? Seriously.

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Send Kamala to solve the problem.

Would that be via HANO* delivery?

*High Altitude No Opening.

“Stop, or I’ll say ‘stop’ again.”
An opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal:
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Another U.S. Embarrassment in Yemen
Biden made concessions to the Houthis, who keep escalating the war.

In its early days in office the Biden Administration removed the Houthi rebels of Yemen from the list of foreign terrorist organizations and withdrew weapons support for the Saudi-led coalition aiding Yemen’s government. How are those goodwill gestures working out?

The Iran-backed Houthis recently breached the compound that once housed the U.S. Embassy and have detained Yemeni employees of the American government. “We are extremely concerned by reports of detentions of some of our local Yemeni employees in Sanaa,” a State Department spokesman said this week. “We call for their immediate release.”

The White House hoped its concessions to the Houthis would prompt them to negotiate an end to the war, but they have responded by pressing their advantage. The Houthis have launched hundreds of attacks on Saudi soil—where tens of thousands of Americans live—and intentionally targeted civilians. Thousands have been killed or displaced this year. When announcing that the U.S. would roll back support for the coalition fighting the Houthi rebels, President Biden declared, “This war has to end.” Yes, but how? The Houthis, and their Iranian backers, saw that the U.S. was walking away from an ally, and they escalated with a goal of victory. They also see an Administration that refuses to intercept Iranian military supplies.

The response from the Biden Administration has been to issue increasingly stern press releases. [Emphasis added.] America’s enemies around the world sense weakness in the White House, and they are moving to take advantage.

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Jimmy Carter MkII and he's only been there a little over 10 months.
At least Jimmy was basically honest, just inept and misguided and his brother gave us a laugh every now and then (and Billy Beer).
He also wasn't in the middle stages of dementia.
You can also sort of credit him with getting Ronald Reagan elected.