Not only did I serve in Georgetown, I was also the first NCOIC, and the first Marine in country. However, we were not allowed to call ourselves Marines, and everything was in civilian clothes. Everyone in Georgetown knew who we really were, but covert was the deal with the government of Guyana, so we did what we had to. We were known as the DOS Embassy Security Detail, Georgetown. I opened the post about 20 August 1972 , and remained there until Feb 73 when I went to Teheran as NCOIC when Richard Helms took over as Ambassador.

I got three watchstanders directly from the class then graduating, and two from Co. D. I got to Georgetown about three weeks before my troops arrived, and had to get everything set up. There was no Marine House, none of the stuff called out in the State/MC Memorandum of Agreement, and the only thing in my office at the Embassy was a telephone in the middle of the floor. I spent what time I had getting a house rented and furnished, hiring servants, etc.  The GSO basically gave me a blank check. About the most fun I ever had.