Officials at RM Condor in Arbroath have closed ranks on the phone hacking scandal.
With marines from 45 Commando deployed in Afghanistan, wives, girlfriends and extended families are concerned whether their phones were subject to hacking.
However, a spokeswoman at the base referred all questions to the MoD press officer at Faslane on the Clyde.
The defence agency declined to discuss whether troops and families linked to Condor had been caught up in the phone hacking saga, or had expressed concerns about the issues and sought advice.
There was no confirmation given as to whether senior officers were issuing advice to families at the base or anyone connected to it.
The MoD spokesman stuck to an official statement, saying only, “This is a matter for the Metropolitan Police who are investigating these allegations. It would be inappropriate for us to comment whilst this investigation is ongoing.”
A former Marine, Captain Paddy Quinlan, who toured with 45 Commando in Northern Ireland and Kuwait and is now chairman of the Arbroath branch of the British Legion, voiced his distaste on the matter.
He said he had not heard of local marines or families having had their phone hacked.
“The families have enough pressure on them without that extra worry that there could be someone on their mobile phone,” said Captain Quinlan.
“For servicemen in any of the forces to have that in the back of their minds, is just not the sort of thing you want.
“I don’t think that sort of thing would happen that often, but with certain papers its seems all they are after is that big story. Religious groups targeted families when we were in Northern Ireland and was a similar picture to what we are seeing now.
“I certainly haven’t heard any reports that it has been going on. At RM Condor the back-up and support is fantastic and they make both the families and the marines feel they are being looked after.”
Troops from 45 Commando are in Afghanistan, around halfway through a six-month tour of duty in one of the most dangerous combat zones in the country.Welfare systemCondor has a highly developed welfare system to support troops and their families, including a chaplaincy service.
Families are told there is a welfare officer on call 24 hours a day, who they can contact direct and be offered a confidential service.
Three members of 45 Commando Group were killed in Afghanistan on one day in 2008, its largest loss of life in a day since the Falklands conflict.
Lance Corporal Steven Fellows (26), from High Wycombe, was killed when an explosion struck his vehicle while on patrol in Sangin.
Later a suicide attack in Sangin by a 13-year-old boy with an explosive-laden wheelbarrow claimed the lives of Sergeant John Manuel (38), from Gateshead, and Corporal Marc Birch (26), from Northants.
Marine Damian Davies, of the Commando Logistics Regiment, also died in the attack.
The MoD refused to confirm if any of the marines’ family members had been hacked.