1st Marine Brigade (United States)
1st Marine Brigade may refer to: * 1st Marine Brigade (Iran), a Takavar unit of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy * 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, a United States Marine Corps ''ad hoc'' infantry brigade in service from 1912 to 1950 * 1st Marine Division, formerly known as the 1st Advance Base Brigade, 1913–1933 *1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade (United States) 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade (1st MEB) is a unit in the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) and is the "middleweight" global crisis response force. History The brigade was stationed at Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) from 1956 ...

1st Marine Brigade (Iran)
1st Marine '' Imam Hossein'' Brigade ( fa, تیپ یکم تفنگداران دریایی امام حسین) is a marines brigade of Islamic Republic of Iran Navy based in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan. The unit is one of top Takavar units among Iranian Armed Forces. The brigade operates in Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The bod ... and is able to operate 3,000 kilometers away from its HQ. Mission set According to the US government, Islamic Republic of Iran Navy MARSOF "probably is trained in a variety of capabilities, including combat diving, parachuting, amphibious assault, airborne assault, underwater demo- litions, special reconnaissance, and maritime visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) operations. IRIN SBS personnel are also capable of covert insertion ...
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1st Provisional Marine Brigade
The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade was a Marine (military), Marine infantry brigade of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) that existed periodically from 1912 to 1950. It was an ad hoc unit formed for specific operations and not considered a "permanent" USMC unit. The brigade saw five brief activations for service over a 40-year span. First created in 1912 for duty in Cuba following the Negro Rebellion, the brigade was not activated again until 1941 when it was hastily constructed from the 6th Marine Regiment (United States), 6th Marine Regiment to garrison Iceland after the Invasion of Iceland, occupation of that country by British troops during World War II. The brigade saw service once more in the war during the Battle of Guam (1944), Battle of Guam in the Pacific War, conducting an amphibious landing on that island's southern sector and subduing resistance from Empire of Japan, Japanese troops. It was activated once more in a brief organizational shift after the war. The br ...
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Advanced Base Force
The United States Marine Corps's Advanced Base Force (Advance Base Force in some references) was a coastal and naval base defense force that was designed to set up mobile and fixed bases in the event of major landing operations within, and beyond, the territorial United States.Commander Richard H. Jackson, USN, ''History of the Advanced Base'' (May 15, 1913) and ''The Naval Advanced Base'' (May 29, 1915); Subject File 408, Records of the General Board. * General Board to SecNav, "Letter to the Secretary of the Navy (LSSN)"; August 13, 1906. * General Board memo; May 29, 1915. Established in the beginning of the 20th century, the Advanced Base Force was the United States' first combined task force built on the concept of the Marine Corps' traditional role in expeditionary warfare. The slow development of the advanced base force played a significant role in the controversy over the removal of the ships' guards (Marines on Navy ships) in 1908–1909.Millett, Allan R., ''Semper Fideli ...
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