A Marine Detachment, or MarDet, was a unit of 35 to 85 United States Marines aboard large warships including cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers...

The Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment One, also simply known as Det One, was a pilot program of attaching a permanent unit of the United...

closed; in 1998, all Marine Detachments on board ships were disbanded. Throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, Marine detachments served aboard Navy cruisers...

subordinates, however, Detachment Commanders may be married. The minimum detachment size is seven MSGs (Marine Security Guards) and one detachment commander. This...

their version of guerrilla warfare. In 1933 Carlson had commanded the Marine Detachment at the Warm Springs, Georgia vacation retreat of President Roosevelt...

Washington incorporated some of the Marines into artillery units of his reorganized Army. 1778, January A Marine detachment sails down the Mississippi River...

of Marines for the vessels that comprised the Continental Navy in the waters of Philadelphia, Capt. Nicholas assumed command of the Marine Detachment on...

of Punta Arenas (3rd Naval Zone): This Marine Detachment has similar characteristics to the 1st Marine Detachment because of its border location. It specialises...

801st Special Marine Detachment is an elite unit of the Ukrainian Navy and is concerned with underwater special operations as well as combat reconnaissance...

numerous naval detachments that conducted maritime operations. These include: 1st Marine Detachment of the MVD (Khabarovsk); 2nd Marine Detachment of the MVD...

The Marine Corps Detachment at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri hosts the largest United States Marine Corps detachment outside a Marine Corps base. With over...

Mangkara Detachment) created on 1 December 1984, and draws operators from the KOPASKA (Navy's Frogman Commando Force) and Taifib (Marine's Amphibious...

Unified Combatant Commands, Marine Corps Security Forces guarding naval installations, and Marine Security Guard detachments at American embassies. Under...

Marine Air Detachment (MAD) is a unit in the United States Marine Corps which works in naval aviation operations. The unit is based in Naval Air Station...

Marine Academy Detachment (not to be confused with Marine Academy Plymouth) is an Army Cadet Force Detachment (formerly Platoon) situated within the school...

Facilities of the United States Marine Corps. Marine Corps Installations Command Marine Corps Installations East Marine Corps Installations West List of...

of a Marine detachment on Mavulis Island to affirm Philippines' sovereignty over the northernmost point of the archipelago. The Marine detachment was opened...

force recon detachment had, since the mid 1980s, formed part of the Maritime Special Purpose Force (MSPF), a specialised sub-unit of a Marine expeditionary...

instructors can earn 8153 (Marine Corps Security Force Cadre Trainer). The unit was initially organized as the Marine Detachment, Naval Operation Base in...

The Marine Detachment, Air Warning Service, Philippines (active 1941–42) was a United States Marine Corps ground based early-warning radar detachment that...

War II. Today's Marine Raiders first saw the light through a pilot program called the Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment One, also known...

Lexington and her Marine detachments were defeated by the British cutter HMS Alert, near France. The Continental frigate Delaware and her Marines were forced...

Additional small formations were the East Asian Marine Detachment (OMD) at Beijing and Tianjin, and Marine-Detachment Skutari, a company composed of personnel...

billets at shore and aboard ship. In the early 1870s, he commanded the Marine detachment aboard the first U.S. warship to visit Cochin-China (now Vietnam)...

transporting and launching amphibious craft and vehicles loaded with embarked Marines in support of an amphibious assault. The ship was designed specifically...

Puller was assigned to the Marine detachment at the American Legation in Beijing, China, commanding a unit of China Marines. He then went on to serve aboard...

were best kept in the Marine Corps' Marine Air-Ground Task Force command structure and that the detachment of an elite Marine special operations unit...

(12-member) Operational Detachments Alpha are also commanded by a captain, who has the title of "detachment commander." Marine captains are company grade...

batteries) Mobile, Alabama Seagoing detachments served aboard the various warships and even on commerce destroyers. The C.S. Marine Corps was formed in the early...

Marine Corps Base Quantico (commonly abbreviated MCB Quantico) is a United States Marine Corps installation located near Triangle, Virginia, covering nearly...