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Expanded list of II MEF deployments

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — More than 28,000 Marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen under the command of Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based II Marine Expeditionary Force will deploy to Iraq early next year, according to the deployment list released Thursday.

http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2391939.php

November 30, 2006
By Trista Talton, Staff writer

The service members who will fall under Multi-National Force-West, which includes 10,000 Iraqi soldiers from the 1st and 7th Iraqi Army Divisions, will be composed of the following units:


II MEF (Forward)

Regimental Combat Team 2

Headquarters Company, 3rd Marines

1st Battalion, 2nd Marines

1st Battalion, 3rd Marines

An Army infantry battalion (to be determined)

1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion

Combat Logistics Battalion 2

Elements of 1st Combat Engineer Battalion

Elements of 1st Tank Battalion

Elements of 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines

Elements of 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion

Regimental Combat Team 6

2nd Battalion, 6th Marines

3rd Battalion, 6th Marines

2nd Battalion, 7th Marines

1st Reconnaissance Battalion

1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division


2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward)

Marine Wing Headquarters 2

Marine Wing Support Group 27

Marine Air Control Group 28

Marine Aircraft Group 29


2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward)

Combat Logistics Battalion 2

Combat Logistics Battalion 6

8th Engineer Support Battalion

2nd Maintenance Battalion

Headquarters Company

Service Company and Communications Company

30th Naval Construction Regiment

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40

Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 303

Underwater Construction Team 2


The force will be responsible for training and preparing Iraqi Security Forces to lead counterinsurgency operations in Anbar province and will relieve units commanded by I MEF (Forward), which has been in charge of Marine units in Iraq since March.

This new list represents the first half of II MEF’s yearlong command in Iraq, roughly covering March through September of next year. The second half, which will be released in the coming summer, will cover September 2007 through March 2008.