The 1st Marine Division is the oldest, largest and most decorated Marine division. Headquartered at Camp Pendleton, California, the Division is a force of 20,000 men and women 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. The Division stands ready to conduct contingency response requirements and is prepared to deploy as a scalable ground combat element to defeat peer, near-peer and hybrid threats across the range of military operations.
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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Victorino Betancourtfarias, a transmissions systems operator with Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, utilizes a...
U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Ryan Hoyle, the assistant division commander of 1st Marine Division, salutes during a promotion ceremony at Marine Corps...
U.S. Marines Corps Pfc. Ciraje Cishahayo, an expeditionary firefighting and rescue specialist with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...
U.S. Marines with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, do squad sit-ups during the Martial Arts Instructor Course 99-25 culminating...
U.S. Marines with Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, hike as a battalion through o-chlorobenzlidene malonoitrile gas at Marine Corps Base...
It was nighttime on the I-805 north when a motorcycle went over a median between the H Street and Bonita Road exits, July 12. The crash left Silverio Gurrola injured on the pavement and his wife, Melinda Gurrola, with a traumatic leg amputation. Amid the chaos and speeding cars, U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Sammuel Goodwin, a hospital corpsman with 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, sprinted across four lanes of highway to help. His fast, calculated response was the deciding factor between life and death for Gurrola, who was critically injured in the middle of one of San Diego’s busiest highways.
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