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The Unit Deployment Program (UDP) is a system for assigning deployments of the United States Marine Corps.To reduce the number of unaccompanied tours and improve unit continuity, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, (CMC) established it to provide for the deployment of units to the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) for periods of approximately six months.
Marine Raiders conduct combat operations in eastern Afghanistan.. Its creation was announced on 1 November 2005 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, [7] following a meeting between him, the SOCOM commander General Bryan D. Brown, and the Marine Corps Commandant General Michael Hagee on 28 October 2005.
9th Communication Battalion was activated 1 June 1966 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California.They were assigned to Force Troops, Fleet Marine Force Pacific in July 1967.
White papers and promotional literature have commonly used the phrase "Navy-Marine Corps Team", [198] [199] or refer to "the Naval Service". Both the chief of naval operations (CNO) and commandant of the Marine Corps report directly to the secretary of the Navy.
The United States Marine Corps Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) is a system of categorizing career fields.All enlisted and officer Marines are assigned a four-digit code denoting their primary occupational field and specialty.
The 7th Engineer Support Battalion (7th ESB – "Big Red 7") is an engineer support unit of the United States Marine Corps and is headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.
The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (11th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps.The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force with a strength of about 2,200 personnel.
1st Transportation Battalion (TB) was a General Support (GS) logistics unit of the United States Marine Corps that was headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.