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As part of the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB), it was also part of a Contingency Joint Task Force in Bangladesh during Operation Sea Angel to provide humanitarian relief in the aftermath of Cyclone Marian. On October 1, 1996, the battalion was re-designated as the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion.
In 1970, 5th MEB was active at Camp Pendleton in Camp San Mateo. 3rd Battalion 3rd Marine Regiment was part of 5th MEB then. In 1990, the 5th MEB activated for the Gulf War and served in the Persian Gulf as part of an amphibious ready group. The amphibious ready group conducted an amphibious warfare maneuver from the sea called an amphibious ...
Combat operations in Southwest Asia were quickly followed by Operation Sea Angel in Bangladesh in May–June 1991.December 1992 BLT 2/9 assigned to the 15TH MEU(SOC) landed in Somalia and conducted combat operations.
During the return transit to the United States, the battalion was diverted to Bangladesh where it provided humanitarian relief as part of Operation Sea Angel. In 1994, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines deployed as the ground combat element of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and participated in Operation Distant Runner, the Non-combatant evacuation ...
Elements of Alpha Company participated in the Al Waffra operation, clearing a large Iraqi mine field with tanks equipped with a mine plow. The 5th MEB was part of Operation Desert Calm and later participated in Operation Sea Angel in a humanitarian mission of relief of the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone. Alpha Company returned to Camp Pendleton, CA ...
Operation Sea Angel began on May 10, 1991, when President Bush directed the US military to provide humanitarian assistance. [20] A Contingency Joint Task Force under the command of Lieutenant General Henry C. Stackpole , consisting of over 400 Marines and 3,000 sailors, was subsequently sent to Bangladesh to provide food, water, and medical ...
Returning from the Kuwaiti theater, the squadron was routed to assist in humanitarian relief to flood-ravaged Bangladesh as part of Operation Sea Angel. Shortly after that the squadron participated in the humanitarian assistance mission Operation Fiery Vigil, after Mount Pinatubo erupted 15 June 1991.
3rd Battalion, 5th Marines (3/5, nicknamed Dark Horse) is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps.The battalion is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and consists of approximately 1,000 Marines and Fleet Marine Force Navy personnel.