Our Mission is to fire and maneuver in order to defeat the enemy and as directed, conduct other operations that influence the environment. We are an expeditionary force, ready to move ashore, fight and win with little to no warning.
Notable Persons
Medal Honor - Vietnam -
PFC Douglas Eugene Dickey
Private First Class Douglas Eugene Dickey (MCSN: 2199321), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on 26 March 1967 while serving with Company C, First Battalion, Fourth Marines, Ninth Amphibious Brigade, THIRD Marine Division (Reinforced), Fleet Marine Force, in action against enemy forces near Gio An, Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam.
Medal Honor - Vietnam -
Cpl Larry Leonard Maxam
Corporal Larry Leonard Maxam (MCSN: 2141892), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on 2 February 1968, while serving as a fire team leader with Company D, First Battalion, Fourth Marines, THIRD Marine Division (Reinforced), Fleet Marine Force, in action against enemy forces in the Cam Lo District, Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam.
Brigadier General Roswell Winans received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Guayacanas on 3 July 1916.
First Sergeant Winans, at that time, drove back entrenched enemy forces during the line of march.
First Lieutenant Ernest Calvin Williams received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic on 29 November 1916. Williams over took a prison against hostile forces at San Francisco de Macoris while commanding only a dozen men.
World War II recipients
Corporal Richard E. Bush received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa, 16 April 1945.
Major Kenneth D. Bailey received the Medal of Honor posthumously for heroic conduct during action during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. For extraordinary courage and heroic conduct above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of Company C during the enemy Japanese attack on Henderson Field.
Major General Merritt A. Edson for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands on the night of 13â??14 September 1942.
Vietnam War recipients
Corporal Larry L. Maxam was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on 2 February 1968 while participating in Operation Kentucky. Cpl Maxam single-handedly defended half of the perimeter of Cam Lo District Headquarters, Quảng Tr� Province, Vietnam against heavy enemy attack.
Private First Class Douglas E. Dickey received the Medal of Honor posthumously for actions while participating in Operation Beacon Hill 1, 26 March 1967. PFC Dickey threw himself upon a grenade, absorbing with his body the full and complete force of the explosion.
