I am NGA: Marvin Porter
TEAM NGA
By Dale Lehner, Office of Corporate Communications
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Officer Marvin Porter is a man who enjoys what he does and always looks for the possibilities life has to offer – both on and off the job. A member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's police force, Porter is constantly on watch to protect NGA’s employees from all possible contingencies. After hours, he is always looking for new ways to create music. He believes the possibilities are infinite. On the surface, one might not see any correlation between these two paths of his life, but both molded Porter into the whole man. Both vocation and avocation taught him discipline and how to interact and communicate with people. He believes this synergy enables him to connect with people on two levels — through his service to protect and through the emotions of his music. Porter ’s mother, an opera singer, introduced him to music at an early age — playing show tunes on the record player at home and singing. But it was during a concert by the Baltimore Symphony that Porter fell in love with the trumpet as he watched and listened, knowing deep down it was his calling to play himself. He began in the fourth grade.