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The 7th Marine Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Marine Corps based at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California. Nicknamed the "Magnificent Seventh", the regiment falls under the command of the 1st Marine Division and the I Marine Expeditionary Force .
1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade; 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade; 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade; 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (Anti-Terrorism) 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade; 6th Marine Expeditionary Brigade; 7th Marine Expeditionary Brigade; 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
A Marine expeditionary brigade (MEB) is a formation of the United States Marine Corps, a Marine air-ground task force of approximately 14,500 Marines and sailors constructed around a reinforced infantry regiment, a composite Marine aircraft group, a combat logistics regiment and a MEB command group. [1]
The 1st Light Armored Vehicle Battalion, 27th Marines, 7th Marine Amphibious Brigade was activated on 11 September 1986. The battalion was re-designated as the 3d Light Armored Infantry Battalion on 1 October 1988 and subsequently relocated to Okinawa , Japan in February 1989.
Amphibious Ready Group Alpha, and its U.S. Marine contingent "Special Landing Force Alpha" or SLF-A (often referred to as the "Sluff", during the Vietnam era) formed Task Group 76.4. TG 76.4 consisted of various support vessels, such as Landing Platform, Helicopter (LPHs) such as the USS Princeton (LPH-5) , USS Okinawa (LPH-3) or USS Iwo Jima ...
On 21 January 1987, 1st Remotely Piloted Vehicle Company was activated at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms, California as part of the 7th Marine Amphibious Brigade. On 24 June 1987, 3rd RPV Company was activated at (MCAGCC) also as part of the 7th Marine Amphibious Brigade.
7th Marine Regiment [3] 1st BN, ... 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade Brigadier General Richard F. Natonskis, Commanding General [3] 2nd Marine Regiment [3]
Marines from C Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, enter a palace in Baghdad. 1/7 Marines in 2010. In January 2003, 1/7 was deployed on Operation Iraqi Freedom. It crossed the Kuwaiti border into Iraq on 18 March; its first mission was to seize the strategically prominent oil pumping and control station in Az Zubayr. This station was so ...