Our Mission
The 1st Marine Division is the oldest, largest and most decorated marine division, headquartered at Camp Pendleton, California. Today, the division is a force of 22,000 men and woman organized to conduct combat operations. the 1st Marine division is an adaptable expeditionary force in readiness, generating, deploying and returning forces in support of global force management (gfm) and contingency response requirements and prepared to deploy as a scalable ground combat element (gce) in order to defeat peer, near-peer and hybrid threats across the range of military operations.