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 Lance Cpl. Carter Johnson, a combat engineer with Charlie company, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, holds an...
U.S. Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force, fill in a pothole as part of Operation Clean Sweep on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California,...
U.S. Marines with Fire Support Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, hike to their next station during the company fire support team...
Nayos Thammaraks, a volunteer with Friends of the 1st CEB, fires an M27 infantry automatic rifle during Warrior Family Day at Marine Corps Base Camp...
U.S. Marines assigned to 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, participate in the Sept. 11 Memorial Hike 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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