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7th Engineer Battalion was activated on September 29, 1950, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA. The battalion was rapidly built up with equipment and troops for deployment to the Korean War. Activated companies included Headquarters, Support, A, B, Bulk Fuel, with a Fixed Bridge Platoon and Floating Bridge Platoon attached.
2nd Battalion, 7th Marines was in the north, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines was in the center and 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines was in the south. With the departure of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in mid-January for Phu Bai Combat Base, the 3/7 Marines extended its area of operations to include An Hoa Combat Base to the south.
1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines and 3rd Squadron, 5th Cavalry Regiment search and destroy operation: 24 km northwest of Da Nang, Quảng Nam Province: 160: 27 Mar 14 – 20: Operation Ford [7]: 249 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines and 1st Battalion, 1st Marines sweep of the Phu Thu Peninsula to engage the VC 804th Main Force ...
The 7th Engineer Battalion is a unit of the United States Army located at Fort Drum, New York. This battalion falls under the 10th Mountain Division 's 1st Brigade Combat Team . The battalion has the Brigade Combat Team 's engineer companies, military intelligence company, and signal company.
1 Company from each of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines search and destroy operation: Quảng Nam Province: Jun 9 – 27: Operation Akron [11] 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment reconnaissance in force operation along encountered elements of the VC 274th Regiment and 5th Division: Route 2: 56: ...
24 August 1965 - 15 August 1966 deployed to Camp Love, Danang Vietnam as a member of Bravo Company, 7th Engineer Battalion,1st Marine Division [7] [8] 28 September 1966 - 13 January 1969 Stationed at Maint Co. H&S Battalion, Marine Corps Base (MCB) 29 Palms, California
Johnson enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve at Oakland, California, on March 23, 1967, and was discharged to enlist in the regular Marine Corps on July 2, 1967. Upon completion of recruit training with the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, MCRD San Diego , California, in September 1967, he was transferred to the ...
Peter Spencer Connor (September 4, 1932 – March 8, 1966) was a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for absorbing the blast of his faulty-timered grenade rather than tossing it and risking nearby comrades in February 1966 in Vietnam.