Alabama
Ridge Marriott
Our Alabama State Operations Director is Ridge Marriott. Mr. Marriott is a former Criminal Investigator-Special Agent-US Government. He was directly involved in the Richard Reid "Shoe Bomber"case in December of 2001.He directly interviewed -in London- Mullah Mohammed; the Mullah of Richard Reid and Mr. Maessioui at Brixton, England-both held in New York on separate terrorism charges. Mr. Marriott secured a third terrorist's name-alias-address-and supplied this vital information to New Scotland Yard-Terrorist Branch. He additionally supplied this information to the FBI-Legal Attache'-US Embassy-London, England.
Sept/1969-May/1972 {USAR-Active and Reserve Officer-1969-1998}
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant-US Army-1969
10th Special Forces Group(ABN)1969-1970
7th Special Forces Group(ABN)1972
Assignments included:
Parachute (Airborne) Training
Infantry Officers Basic-Advanced Courses
Command and General Staff College
Special Forces Officers Course
Operations and Intelligence Course
Vietnamese Language School
Vietnam:71-72 MACV-SOG (Special Operations-Top Secret -SII-Clearance)
{Remained as Reserve Army Officer until 1997; Rank-LT Colonel}
73-August/1974-Juvenile Investigator-Dekalb County, Ga. Juvenile Court
Performed criminal investigations of juvenile offenders.
Assisted in preparing reports and pre-sentence investigations and juvenile
home studies.
Aug-1974-September 1975-Investigator-GS-1810 Series-US Civil Service
Commission. Chattanooga, TN. Performed sensitive background investigations on
prospective federal employees and contract agency/company employees about to enter
federal facilities at TVA and the Oak Ridge(TN.) National Laboratory.
Oct 75-July/1983-Criminal Investigator GS-1811-11 (Special Agent)-U.S.
Immigration & Naturalization Service (Dept. of Justice)-Cincinnati, Ohio and
Chicago, Illinois. Served warrants and
arrested illegal or undocumented aliens within the United States. Arranged for
the deportation of foreign nationals from the United States.
Graduate: US Border Patrol Academy (1975 and 1976)
US Immigration Officer's Course-(Criminal Investigator-Special Agent)
Feb/1983-July/1988- U.S.Army
Returned to Active Army-as Army Major-Ft. Bragg, N.C. with US Army Special
Operations Command. Re-assigned to the Pentagon-1984-Army Special Operations
Directorate-Army Anti-terrorism Task Force. Provided Force Protection and
security force counter-terrorism planning for Army-wide major commands.
August-1988/-Sept.1993-US Department of State-Office of the Inspector
General-INSPECTOR-FS-04 (GS-12/13) (Foreign Service Officer) Provided fraud and
background criminal investigative skills and policy; conducted internal security
investigations of both contract agencies; foreign nationals and State
Department employees
in Africa, Honduras and Egypt. Utilized Spanish Language ability and training.
Graduate: Foreign Service School (A.I.D.) Washington, D.C. Foreign
Service Language Institute (Spanish)
Also utilized limited Farsi in conducting investigations. Qualified for
retirement under Foreign Service Retirement Act and Civil Service.
August/ 1993-Sept 1997-Lt. Colonel-US Army Reserve. Assisted in ROTC
instruction at New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Alabama. Qualified
for federal retirement : under a combination of military service years; civil
service retirement and Foreign Service Retirement.
October, 1997-Present
President: Marriott and Associates. A respected name in executive protection
locally-providing executive protection assets to clients specifically
including : Merrill Lynch; Georgia-Pacific; Johnson and Johnson. The firm also
regularly performs sensitive investigations for selected clientele in the Southeast.
Language qualification: French-Spanish-German-Farsi
Federal security clearance-(Have held Secret and Top Secret DOJ/DOD/State
Dept clearances)