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2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines was the first complete infantry reserve battalion to deploy in support of the Iraq War. U.S. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment fire a Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon during UNITAS-Partnership of the Americas 2012 at Camp Blanding. 2/23 pushed forward into Iraq on 20 March
The right assault Battalion 2/23 was on yellow beach 2 and 3/23 was the assault reserve. [3] The 23d Marines did not have a Pioneer Battalion for the assault Shore Party so the Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 were task assigned that duty until relieved D-plus 18. [4]
In 1921, the MCRDSD was formally commissioned and in 1923, it became the primary recruiting center for the west coast. During World War II, the flow of recruits into the base surged, with 18,000 recruits arriving in one month. In 1948, the base was formally named Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego and was home to the Recruit Training Regiment ...
BLT 2/2 marines board a CH-53E Super Stallion aboard the USS Bataan in the Persian Gulf, April 2, 2007. 2d Battalion, 2d Marines deployed in March 2004 to Iraq where it was attached to Regimental Combat Team 1, 1st Marine Division and fought in Al Mahmudiya, Al Kharma, the first and second assault in the city of Fallujah, and Al Zadan.
2nd Battalion, 24th Marines was activated on 26 March 1943, as part of the 4th Marine Division. Their first action was the invasion of the Marshall Islands on 1 February 1944, securing the first portion of the Japanese Empire to be conquered by the United States in World War II. Capt.Joseph J. McCarthy of 2/24 G Co..
In March the 24th Marine Regiment was organized, and then in May it was split in two to supply the men for the 25th Marines. [2] Riflemen from 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines fire on the enemy from a destroyed Japanese pillbox. Iwo Jima – February 1945. This war-time shuffling provided the major building blocks for 4th Marine Division.
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John Basilone (November 4, 1916 – February 19, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle for Henderson Field in the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Navy Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima.