Officially Licensed USMC 2nd Marine Regiment Patch - United States Marine Corps 2nd Marine Regiment (2nd Marines), 2nd Marine Division, officially licensed embroidered patch, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Keep Moving — the motto of the 2nd Marines says everything about a regiment that has closed with the enemy across more than a century of American military history.
The 2nd Marine Regiment traces its lineage to the 1st Advance Base Regiment, activated on 19 June 1913 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and redesignated as the 2nd Marines on 1 January 1933. Assigned to the 2nd Marine Division and headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, the regiment functions as a maneuver element trained to defeat enemies through integrated fire, close combat, and expeditionary operations across diverse environments. Its combat record spans the Banana Wars, World War II campaigns at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa — where the regiment earned multiple Presidential Unit Citations — and extends through Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom. In Iraq, the regiment served as Regimental Combat Team 2, conducting counterinsurgency operations across Al Anbar Province, including Operation Steel Curtain in 2005. Today the regiment remains part of II Marine Expeditionary Force, ready to deploy as a task-organized ground combat force wherever the mission demands. This officially licensed embroidered patch carries that full weight of lineage, making it a precise and meaningful piece for anyone connected to the 2nd Marines story.
Perfect For: 2nd Marine Regiment veterans, 2nd Marine Division alumni, Camp Lejeune Marines, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom service members, Tarawa and Pacific Theater historians, shadow box builders, unit reunion displays, challenge coin and patch panel collectors, military family members, and anyone preserving the ground combat heritage of the East Coast Marine Corps community and II Marine Expeditionary Force.
Over a century of Keep Moving — stitched, licensed, and ready for the collection.