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The 4th Marines absorbed the Marine Barracks Olongapo on 22 December 1941 to fill out the 1st and 2nd Battalions to three rifle companies of three platoons each, then added the 1st Separate Marine Battalion [20] at Cavite to create the 3rd Battalion. The 4th Marines then were moved to Corregidor where on 10 April 1942 it added the Provisional ...
The battalion was formed in early 1961 and based at Vũng Tàu in Phước Tuy province (now Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province). On 30–31 December 1964, it was ambushed by elements of the Viet Cong 9th Division near the Quang Giao rubber plantation, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south east of Bình Giã and suffered 60% casualties.
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines (2/4) is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps.The battalion, nicknamed the Magnificent Bastards from the Vietnam War, is based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and is a part of the 4th Marine Regiment and 1st Marine Division.
4th Battalion, 10th Marines: Fighting 4th: 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines: The Thundering Guns of Death: 4th Battalion, 12th Marines: Hell's Hammers: 6th Machine Gun Battalion: 6th Motor Transport Battalion: 6th Reconnaissance Battalion: 11th Engineer Battalion: Construction Destruction: 11th Motor Transport Battalion: Rolling 11th: 19th Battalion ...
The battalion was originally activated in April 1911 as the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment. The battalion first saw combat in November 1916 in the Dominican Republic, where 1st Lieutenant Ernest Williams was awarded the battalion's first Medal of Honor. The mission in the Dominican Republic was to protect foreign lives and property and to ...
Additionally, on 18 November 1990, Alpha Company, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division was mobilized in support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Alpha Company was assigned to Regimental Landing Team 5, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. This was part of the amphibious force in the Persian Gulf.
The battalion was also tasked to organize, train, and equip individual Marines and combat ready tank companies to augment and reinforce the active duty component when required to serve as part of the Total Force of the United States. 4th Tank Battalion was a self-sustaining, autonomous unit capable of performing all the tasks of the regular force.
3rd Battalion, 4th Marines (3/4) or (V34) is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps.Nicknamed "Thundering Third" and "Darkside," it is based at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, and consist of approximately 1,000 Marines.