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1st Tank Battalion Original Patch — Embroidered Patch
First Tanks — 1st Tank Battalion, USMC
From the jungles of Guadalcanal to the deserts of Iraq, 1st Tank Battalion brought the thunder that shook the battlefield and brought Marines home alive. This patch honors the original insignia of the longest-serving tank battalion in Marine Corps history — a unit that wrote the book on armored warfare from the sea.
Activated on 1 November 1941 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 1st Tank Battalion was the first Marine tank unit to see combat, landing on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942 with M2A4 light tanks — the only American unit to ever use the M2A4 in battle. The battalion fought across the Pacific in World War II, through Korea alongside the 1st Marine Division, through Vietnam operating in I Corps, through Desert Storm leading the ground assault into Kuwait, and through two decades of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Based at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, 1st Tank Battalion was officially decommissioned on 21 May 2021 as part of the Commandant's Force Design 2030 initiative, ending 80 years of armored service to the Corps.
Perfect For: Former tankers of 1st Tanks, 1st Marine Division veterans, Marine armor enthusiasts, Force Design 2030 historians, and anyone who believes that tanks and Marines were always better together.
Eighty years of shock and steel. First Tanks — forever.
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