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A 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion Marine and LAV-25 in Iraq during June 2008. The United States Marine Corps Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalions, or LAR Battalions, are fast and mobilized armored terrestrial reconnaissance units that conduct reconnaissance-in-force (RIF) ahead of the battalion landing teams or division infantry forces.
LAR is not mechanized infantry. MCWP 3-14 states (page 2-1): “The LAR scouts are not employed the same way as infantry or mechanized infantry.” Again, MCWP 3-14 goes on to emphasize this distinction (page 2-4): “Operations requiring large numbers of infantry favor employing mechanized infantry units due to their higher troop density.”
The 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion (2nd Recon) is a reconnaissance battalion in the United States Marine Corps. Located at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune , North Carolina , the battalion falls under the command of the 2nd Marine Division and the II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF).
A Marine was killed in a homicide at Camp Lejeune and a second Marine was held on suspicion of being involved, the base said. Base authorities took the Marine into custody about 10:15 p.m ...
By 1945, the divisions had instituted and organized their own scout-sniper, light armored reconnaissance (LAR), and division reconnaissance assets. As a result of MCO 5401.5, dated 24 August 1952, the USMC Force Restructure and Implementation Plan, the Marine Corps shrunk its forces and as a result reconnaissance battalions were eliminated and ...
Last August, Congress passed into law the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which allowed an estimated more than 1 million people exposed to the water to file a claim with the Navy. If the Navy didn’t ...
The 2nd Law Enforcement Battalion was a military police battalion based at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and subordinate to the II Marine Expeditionary Force. It was activated on 2 July 2012, after Marine Corps Bulletin 5400 reactivated the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Military Police Battalions (re-designated as “Law Enforcement ...
Twenty former residents of Camp Lejeune—all men who lived there during the 1960s and the 1980s—have been diagnosed with breast cancer. [13] In April 2009, the United States Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry withdrew a 1997 public health assessment at Camp Lejeune that denied any connection between the toxicants and illness. [44]