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    light infantry warfare. "Edson's" Raiders of 1st Marine Raider Battalion and "Carlson's" Raiders of 2nd Marine Raider Battalion are said to have been the...
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    operating behind the lines. "Edson's" Raiders of 1st Marine Raiders Battalion and "Carlson's" Raiders of 2nd Marine Raiders Battalion are said to be the first...
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    The United States Marine Raider stiletto was issued to the Marine Raiders and 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during World War II. At the start of World...
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    – present A 160th SOAR(A) MH-47 conducts water insertion of Marine Raiders A Marine Raider glides towards his target during high-altitude parachute operations...
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    Marine Raider Battalion (1st MRB) is a special operations forces of the United States Marine Corps and a subordinate combat component of the Marine Corps...
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  • Marine Raiders is a 1944 RKO war film showing a fictional depiction of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and 1st Marine Parachute Battalion on Guadalcanal...
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    missions units for decades. In 2003, the Marine Corps created the present-day successors to the Marine Raiders and provided them to Special Operations...
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    U.S. Marine Raider Association. "Marine Raider Museum Notice" Archived 2010-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, World War II U.S. Marine Raiders website. Retrieved...
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    of the U.S. The battalion became known as Marine Raiders due to Admiral Chester Nimitz's request for "raiders" in the Pacific front of the war.[citation...
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  • Austria Bydgoszcz Raiders, an American football team based in Bydgoszcz, Poland HMS Raider, several Royal Navy ships Marine Raiders, an elite, special...
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  • operating behind the lines. "Edson's Raiders of 1st Marine Raiders Battalion and "Carlson's" Raiders of 2nd Marine Raiders Battalion are said to be the first...
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  • 3d Marine Raider Battalion Marine Raider Support Group 1st Marine Raider Support Battalion 2d Marine Raider Support Battalion 3d Marine Raider Support Battalion...
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    Raid on Makin Island (category United States Marine Corps in World War II)
    Makin Island (17–18 August 1942) was an attack by the United States Marine Corps Raiders on Japanese military forces on Makin Island (now known as Butaritari)...
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    Evans Carlson (category Marine Raiders)
    was a decorated and retired United States Marine Corps general officer who was the leader of "Carlson's Raiders" during World War II. Many credit Carlson...
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  • The Florida Marine Raiders (formerly the Lakeland Raiders) were a professional indoor football team; though they began play in 2012 as a member of the...
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    Michael Strank (category Marine Raiders)
    the 3rd Raiders were removed from the combat zone and returned to Guadalcanal, arriving on January 14. On February 1, the 1st Marine Raider Regiment...
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    US Army began experiments with camouflage in 1940-1941. In 1942, the Marine Raiders were the first issued the Frog Skin uniform, which was reversible with...
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    officer. The USMC Raider "Dagger" insignia is equivalent to the US Navy SEAL "Trident" in that the device indicates that the Marine is a part of the special...
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    Ka-Bar (category United States Marine Corps equipment)
    this pattern were carried by many Marines in the 1st Marine Division as well as by Marine Raiders in the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion commanded by Lt. Col...
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  • of the Marine Corps but outside the MAGTF structure, or within the Supporting Establishment. The Marine Raider battalions of the Marine Raider regiment...
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    " President Roosevelt's son James Roosevelt served with the Marine Raiders. The Raiders initially saw action at the Battle of Tulagi and the Battle of...
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  • Marine Regiment 2nd Marine Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 5th Marine Regiment 6th Marine Regiment 7th Marine Regiment 23rd Marine Regiment 25th Marine Regiment...
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    The United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) is a national memorial located in Arlington County, Virginia. The memorial was dedicated...
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  • of the MAGTF is the Marine Raider Regiment, functioning under United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command. Marine Raiders specialize in direct...
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    Guadalcanal campaign (category United States Marine Corps in World War II)
    September, he relocated three Marine battalions, including the 1st Raider Battalion, under Merritt A. Edson (Edson's Raiders), and the 1st Parachute Battalion...
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  • Edward H. Ahrens (category Marine Raiders)
    in the Marine Raiders in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Ahrens was born on Nov. 4, 1919, in Dayton, Kentucky. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps...
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    Mike Edson of the Marine Raiders. Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-732-X. Smith, George W. (2003). The Do-or-Die Men: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion at Guadalcanal...
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    China Marine Corps (ROCMC; also known as the ROC Marine Corps or the ROC Marines and retroactively as the Chinese Marine Corps or the Chinese Marines, but...
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  • Facebook. Marine Raider Memorial March, retrieved 2019-04-08 "Marine Raiders march 770 miles in remembrance". The Official United States Marine Corps Public...
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  • Call of Duty: World at War (category Video games about the United States Marine Corps)
    World War II; its story is told primarily from the perspectives of US Marine Raider Private C. Miller and Soviet Red Army Private Dimitri Petrenko. The...
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