Marines with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, detain a protester during a crisis-response training event Nov. 4 at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Indiana as part of Exercise Bold Alligator 2014. During the event, protestors gathered outside the embassy's gates, picketing and rioting, to cause a heighten state of alertness for the Marines proving security at the site. - Marines with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, detain a protester during a crisis-response training event Nov. 4 at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Indiana as part of Exercise Bold Alligator 2014. During the event, protestors gathered outside the embassy's gates, picketing and rioting, to cause a heighten state of alertness for the Marines proving security at the site.

A Marine with Combat Logistics Regiment 25, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, guards his post during a full-ship security drill aboard the cargo and ammunition ship USNS Medgar Evers, Nov. 4, 2014. The Marines worked in concert with civilians aboard the ship to test expeditionary resupply capabilities during exercise Bold Alligator 14, a training operation designed to test the Navy-Marine Corps team’s ability to conduct crisis response operations. - A Marine with Combat Logistics Regiment 25, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, guards his post during a full-ship security drill aboard the cargo and ammunition ship USNS Medgar Evers, Nov. 4, 2014. The Marines worked in concert with civilians aboard the ship to test expeditionary resupply capabilities during exercise Bold Alligator 14, a training operation designed to test the Navy-Marine Corps team’s ability to conduct crisis response operations.