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12-14-06, 03:16 PM
December 14, 2006
Corps reactivating 2 infantry battalions in next 2 years
By Trista Talton
Staff writer
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Two more infantry battalions will be reactivated in the next two years, according to a Corps-wide message. The Corps will activate 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, this fiscal year and 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines, in fiscal 2008., according to MarAdmin 582/06.
The message did not indicate whether a regimental headquarters for 9th Marines will be formed, or whether those battalions will fall under existing regiments.
Both 2/9 and 3/9 were deactivated in 1994.
The Dec. 7 message announced revisions to the Corps’ table of organization and equipment, from fiscal 2007 through 2013.
Another unit, Engineer Company, 3rd Combat Assault Battalion, will be activated this fiscal year.
Deactivations include Headquarters Battery, 5th Battalion, 10th Marines; 1st Stinger Battery; and the Corps’s anti-terrorism battalion.
The 3rd Marine Logistics Group will be reorganized, according to the message.
The Corps reactivated 1st Battalion, 9th Marines late last year, attaching it to 6th Marines based at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The battalion, which was deactivated in the mid-1990s, is currently 501 leathernecks strong.
That activation was part of the 2004 Force Structure Review Group, which recommended deactivating units that had seen little action in the war on terrorism — Reserve artillery batteries, tank companies and low-altitude air-defense battalions — and putting that manpower toward two infantry battalions, light armored reconnaissance companies and other units.
Ellie
Corps reactivating 2 infantry battalions in next 2 years
By Trista Talton
Staff writer
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Two more infantry battalions will be reactivated in the next two years, according to a Corps-wide message. The Corps will activate 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, this fiscal year and 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines, in fiscal 2008., according to MarAdmin 582/06.
The message did not indicate whether a regimental headquarters for 9th Marines will be formed, or whether those battalions will fall under existing regiments.
Both 2/9 and 3/9 were deactivated in 1994.
The Dec. 7 message announced revisions to the Corps’ table of organization and equipment, from fiscal 2007 through 2013.
Another unit, Engineer Company, 3rd Combat Assault Battalion, will be activated this fiscal year.
Deactivations include Headquarters Battery, 5th Battalion, 10th Marines; 1st Stinger Battery; and the Corps’s anti-terrorism battalion.
The 3rd Marine Logistics Group will be reorganized, according to the message.
The Corps reactivated 1st Battalion, 9th Marines late last year, attaching it to 6th Marines based at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The battalion, which was deactivated in the mid-1990s, is currently 501 leathernecks strong.
That activation was part of the 2004 Force Structure Review Group, which recommended deactivating units that had seen little action in the war on terrorism — Reserve artillery batteries, tank companies and low-altitude air-defense battalions — and putting that manpower toward two infantry battalions, light armored reconnaissance companies and other units.
Ellie