Category: 3rd Marine Division, United States Marine Corps

Categories: United States Marine Corps Divisions

The 3rd Marine Division is an infantry division in the United States Marine Corps based at Camp Courtney, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler and Okinawa, Japan. It is one of three active duty divisions in the Marine Corps and together with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1stMAW) and the 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3rd MLG) forms the III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The division was first formed during World War II and saw four years of continuous combat in the Vietnam War.

The 3rd Marine Division was assigned to:

• III Marine Expeditionary Force

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Current primary subordinate units are:

• Headquarters Battalion
• 3rd Marine Regiment
• 4th Marine Regiment
• 12th Marine Regiment
• Combat Assault Battalion

A division can also have separate battalions/companies that fall directly under the division and not under a regiment, for instance the HQ element for the general and his staff, a tank, artillery, engineer, etc unit. If the profile user's unit has not been created yet, or is unknown, add the profile to this division category and as we review/monitor, we will create the unit category if appropriate and reassign the profile to it.

For more detailed service information about the unit and the personnel who served in the 3rd Marine Division in specific wars/conflicts, see:

• World War II
• Vietnam War

For more information on the 3rd Marine Division See:

• Wikipedia:3rd_Marine_Division_(United_States)

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