The Man Behind Post One: A Marine Security Guard on Serving in New Delhi, Togo, and Ottawa

In this episode, the microphone turns around. Prior guest Matthew Kearse takes over as host to interview James Curry — Marine veteran, former Marine Security Guard, and creator of the Post One Podcast — about his own path through the MSG program.James traces his road to Marine Security Guard duty: enlisting at seventeen, deploying to Fallujah in 2004, and getting orders to MSG school almost the moment he returned. He talks about the academic pressure and peer scrutiny of the schoolhouse, then walks through his three U.S. Embassy posts — the chaos and culture shock of New Delhi, the poverty and unmatched detachment camaraderie of Lomé, Togo, and the cold, self-drive normalcy of Ottawa, where a cyclist once spat in his face over President Bush.He shares the moments that stuck: the presidential visit when a hotel fire alarm nearly forced an evacuation, the gray-area decisions of curfew violations and classified material left in the open, and how the program deprogrammed the fleet Marine in him and taught him to manage outsized egos. In the back half, the conversation shifts to the podcast itself — why James built it, the Marine Security Guard stories that have stayed with him, the evolving relationship between Marines and RSOs, and his ongoing struggle to reach Marines who served in the last decade.