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2nd Battalion, 4th Marines (2/4) is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps. The battalion, nicknamed the Magnificent Bastards from the Vietnam War, is based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton , California and is a part of the 4th Marine Regiment and 1st Marine Division .
Operation Sharp Edge was a non-combatant evacuation operation carried out by the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU) and 26th MEU of the United States Marine Corps in Liberia in 1990 and 1991. The MEUs were supported by Amphibious Squadron Four (Task Force 61) composed of USS Whidbey Island , USS Saipan , USS Ponce , USS Sumter , USS ...
Sharpe and Harper then enlist in the South Essex Regiment under assumed names in order to find the 2nd Battalion. They and other recruits are taken to a secret, brutal training camp in Foulness Island , run by the 2nd Battalion's commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Bartholomew Girdwood .
Sharpe installs the Second battalion's nominal commander, Colonel Bartholomew Girdwood, in overall command of the Regiment, while making it clear that the rank-and-file's loyalty is to Sharpe alone. Girdwood suffers a nervous breakdown during the Battle of Nivelle , as the South Essex Regiment joins the British Army's invasion of French territory.
Sharpe forms up the recruits of the Second Battalion and takes them to London, where they march in on the Prince Regent's party, with Sharpe bearing the eagle he took at Talavera. The Prince gleefully claims them as his own, making the regiment the Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers, instead of the South Essex.
In November 1990, Company C was the first of the 2nd Battalion units to move to the CMTC – Hohenfels, Germany to reactivate as Company C, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry and assume role as OPFOR. The 2d Battalion, 4th Infantry was inactive until 2004 when it was reactivated at Fort Polk (now Fort Johnson ), Louisiana, as part of the 4th Brigade ...
The 4th Marines absorbed the Marine Barracks Olongapo on 22 December 1941 to fill out the 1st and 2nd Battalions to three rifle companies of three platoons each, then added the 1st Separate Marine Battalion [20] at Cavite to create the 3rd Battalion. The 4th Marines then were moved to Corregidor where on 10 April 1942 it added the Provisional ...
When 2/4 and 3/11 left in September and October, they handed their sector of Ramadi over to the 2nd Battalion 5th Marines (2/5)2nd Battalion 11th marines were also deployed during this time to Ar Ramadi, who completed their tour in April 2005, then 1st Battalion 5th Marines (1/5) took over. The spring of 2004 was particularly bloody in Ramadi.