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.
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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.