Welcome Home 4th LAR
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Marines from Delta Company, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, a reserve unit based at Camp Upshur here, reunited with their loved ones at a special homecoming reception at Barnett Field here Tuesday, October 14. The Marines deployed to western Al Anbar Province in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from March to October 2008 performing a mechanized security mission across more than 9,000 square miles, an area as large as South Carolina. They were mobilized and attached to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion out of Camp Lejeune.
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10/17/2008 By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce , Marine Corps Base Quantico
Company D was activated as Weapons Company, 4th Light Armored Vehicle Battalion, in August 1988 and redesignated as light armored infantry in December 1990. In November 1990, they were mobilized to Southwest Asia and temporarily designated as Company E, 2nd Light Armored Infantry Battalion. They were redesignated as D Co 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in October 1995.