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The 3rd Recon Battalion consists of approximately 450 Marines and Fleet Marine Force sailors that falls under the command of the 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force. Company B was formed from the 5th Force Reconnaissance Company due to the formation of the Marine Special Operations Teams (MSOT) in 2006.
22 Oct 1969 – Dropped from Operational and Administrative control by 3d Recon Battalion, 3d Marine Division and came under the control of III Marine Amphibious Force. Following Vietnam War, the unit was redesignated to Detachment 4th Force Reconnaissance Company, 1 January 1983 Redesignated 3d Force Reconnaissance Company.
During the Vietnam War, one of the reconnaissance officers of Code 121, then-Major Alex Lee, brought most of his testing experience to 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company when he was assigned as the commanding officer from 1969 to 1970. He formed Force Recon's missions that are still distinct today: remote sensor operations.
A United States Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalion (or commonly called Marine Division Recon) is a reconnaissance unit within the Ground Combat Element (GCE) of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) that conducts amphibious reconnaissance, underwater reconnaissance, advanced force operations, battlespace shaping, ground reconnaissance, surveillance, raids and direct action in support of ...
The 3rd Marine Division is a division of the United States Marine Corps based at Camp Courtney, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler in Okinawa, Japan.It is one of three active duty infantry divisions in the Marine Corps and together with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1stMAW) and the 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3rd MLG) forms the III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF).
LRRP training was notoriously rigorous and team leaders were often graduates of the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group Recondo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam. [1] [26] Tiger Force was the nickname of an infamous long-range reconnaissance patrol unit [27] of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade (Separate), 101st ...
3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, ARVN 5th Airborne Battalion and Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps combined reaction force operation landing near An Hoa to encounter the 60th and 90th battalions of the 1st VC Regiment and the 11th Battalion, 21st NVA Regiment: An Hoa: 623: 99 Mar 20 – 28
Like most infantry battalions in the Marine Corps in the post-Vietnam era, 3rd Battalion consisted of five companies: three Rifle Companies, a Headquarters and Service Company (H&S), and a Weapons Company. [3] During the Vietnam War, infantry battalions had a fourth rifle company, which was replaced with Weapons Company in the 1980s. [nb 2] [4]