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U.S. Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force and Singapore Guardsmen with 7th Singapore Infantry Brigade conduct bilateral training during Exercise Valiant Mark 2023 at Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 7-20, 2023. Valiant Mark 23 is an annual, bilateral training exercise conducted between the Singapore Armed Forces and I Marine Expeditionary Force, designed to enhance interoperability, improve combined arms and amphibious warfighting skills, and strengthen military-to-military relationships. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Logan Courtright)

U.S. service members and camp personnel with Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji participate in Exercise Mamoru 2022 on CATC Camp Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan, March 28-30, 2022. Camp personnel conducted a mass casualty drill that required responses from the camp's Provost Marshal's Office, Marine Corps Installations Pacific Fire & Emergency Services, a security augmentation force, and the Naval Medical Readiness and Training Detachment Fuji. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Ryan H. Pulliam)

Marines from the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar conduct Security Augmentation Force training on MCAS Miramar, San Diego, California, on Dec. 1, 2021. Marines who participate in the SAF program attend a four-day course where they learn basic law enforcement skills, lethal and non-lethal weapons handling, as well as earning their Oleoresin Capsicum Spray qualification. No matter the Military Occupational Specialty, any Marine can be a part of the SAF. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Nayomi Koepke)

Damean Hurt, Security Augmentation Force (SAF) training specialist, discuses SAF on MCAS Miramar, California, Aug 23, 2021. Marines entering the SAF program attend a four day course learning basic law enforcement skills, lethal and non-lethal weapons handling, as well as earning their Oleoresin Capsicum Spray qualification. No matter the Military Occupational Specialty, any Marine can be a part of the SAF. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Taylor Bidon)

U.S. Marines and sailors aboard Marine Corps Base-Camp Smedley D. Butler take part in Security Augmentation Force Training from Dec. 2 to 12, 2019 on Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan. Camps Foster, Plaza and Lester requires a SAF in order to adequately protect the installation, personnel and interests during periods of increased Force Protection Conditions (FPCON). The Provost Marshal’s Office conducts SAF training in order to maintain a force with the ability to increase Camp Foster, Plaza and Lester’s security posture as the mission requires. (U.S. Marine Corps motion imagery by Cpl. Nickolas Beamish)

Security Augmentation Force (SAF) training is done to provide qualified and properly trained personnel ready to support the military provost marshals (PMO) and local law enforcement. They train to become our law enforcements back-up when their capacities are exceeded, support destructive weather efforts, and any special event that is deemed appropriate by the installation commander. The Marines training to become a part of SAF go through numerous courses to become the highly qualified assets needed. After completing all of their initial screening, the Marines coordinate with their newly assigned squad leader to begin their law enforcement oriented training. Marines in SAF are required to qualify on the pistol range as well as participate in defensive tactics training, a gate procedures class, vehicle search training and qualify for level one contamination with oleoresin capsicum spray. Following this training; they can spend anywhere from a six months to a year assisting PMO with regular and special duties to help keep our installations and the people within them safe.

Marines with Headquarters Regiment, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, engage in an non-lethal weapons training course as a part of a security augmentation force (SAF) training event Oct. 11, 2018 on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, Japan. The SAF Marines practiced detainee handling procedures and non-lethal weapons tactics after being sprayed with oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray in order to learn how to effectively function and provide security while being affected by the spray. SAF Marines are trained to augment and assist base security forces across Marine Corps Base Camp Butler. Browne, a native of Burlington, Michigan, is a warehouse clerk with Supply Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3rd Marine Logistics Group. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jamin M. Powell)

Marines participating in a Security Augmentation Force course, get OC sprayed at Marine Corps Support Facility, New Orleans, Louisiana, Sept. 14, 2018, as part of the process to become SAF qualified. During the course Marines will get OC qualified, pistol qualified, as well as learn how to conduct vehicle searches and serve as armed security. The mission of the course is to produce qualified Marines able to serve as augmentations during times of heightened security for the Provost Marshal’s Office or Marine Corps Police Department. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Niles Lee/Released)

The Security Augmentation Force familiarized themselves with the M1014 shotgun during training April 16 aboard Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan. SAF trainees must master these skills and other Military Police related skills before becoming certified SAF personnel.

Oleoresin Capsicum spray certification is part of a nonlethal weapons training PMO and SAF Marines must go through. The training includes baton fundamentals, defensive tactics and mechanical-advantage control holds.