4th Marine Regiment

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4TH Marine Regiment

The 4th Marine Regiment is an infantry regiment based on Camp Schwab, Okinawa Japan. It is part of the 3rd Marine Division of the III Marine Expeditionary Force. The 4th Marine regiment was activated on April 16, 1914, in Puget Sound, Washington and Mare Island, California Naval Yards, under the command of Colonel Joseph Henry Pendleton.

The name “China Marines” was given to the regiment on 3 February 1927 when the 4th marines sailed from San Diego to Shanghai China on the USS Chaumont. Once the marines landed, they came under the command of Brigadier General Smedley Butler; they joined seven other nations in the internal defense of the settlement, with orders not to come into conflict with the Chinese troops. After more forces came to China to help the Regiment end conflict with the Chinese military and people, the 4th marine regiment settled into a routine garrison duty during which it gained the nickname “China marines”. Reductions continued, and on 114 January 1928 the 4th Regiment was detached from the withdrawing Marines of the
Brigade and on 13 February 1930 the Regiment gained its identification as 4th Marines.

The 4th Marines absorbed the Marine Barracks Olongapo on 22 December 1941 to …show more content…
The 1st, 4th, and 3rd Raider Battalions became respectively the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions, 4th Marines. The 2nd Raider Battalion became the regimental weapons company. 4th Marines combined with the 22nd Marine and the 29th Marine Regiment was assigned to the 6th Marine Division and fought at Guam and Okinawa. After the end of World War II, the 6th Marine Division was deactivated, also dissolving the regiments under its operational command. In 1951, the 4th Marines were reactivated carrying lineage of both the old and new 4th
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