The 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade is a

United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combi ...

unit. When deployed, it serves as a

Marine Air-Ground Task Force Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF, pronounced MAG-TAF) is a term used by the United States Marine Corps to describe the principal organization for all missions across the range of military operations. MAGTFs are a balanced air-ground, combined ar ...

History

5th MEB first activated during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

and served in

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guarding supply lines and garrisons that were critical to supporting the 5th and 6th Marine Regiments during the allied defeat of the

German army The German Army (, "army") is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German ''Bundeswehr'' together with the ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the ''Luftwaf ...

in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. During the

Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (of 1962) ( es, Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, the Caribbean Crisis () in Russia, or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day (16 October – 20 November 1962) confrontation between the United S ...

, Amphibious Group Three embarked units of the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and sailed from San Diego on 27 October, with two reinforced amphibious squadrons and the amphibious command ship

USS Eldorado (AGC-11) USS ''Eldorado'' (AGC-11) was a ''Mount McKinley''-class amphibious force command ship, named after a mountain range in Nevada. The ship was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command post with advanced communications equipment ...

. The Panama Canal was closed to commercial shipping and on 5 November warships of Amphibious Group Three, with 11,000 Marines and Sailors embarked, arrived in Panama. The 22 amphibious ships passed through the canal to the Caribbean with the 5th MEB operated with the Atlantic Fleet until the end of the missile crisis. 5th MEB returned to the West Coast on 15 December 1962. For the remainder of 1962, the ships were moored in Long Beach and San Diego with the heavy cargo of 5th MEB remaining on board until after Christmas. In 1970, 5th MEB was active at Camp Pendleton in Camp San Mateo. 3rd Battalion 3rd Marine Regiment was part of 5th MEB then. In 1990, the 5th MEB activated for the

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

and served in the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...

as part of an

amphibious ready group An amphibious ready group (ARG) of the United States Navy consists of a naval element—a group of warships known as an Amphibious Task Force (ATF)—and a landing force (LF) of U.S. Marines (and occasionally U.S. Army soldiers), in total about ...

. The amphibious ready group conducted an

amphibious warfare Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach. Through history the operations were conducte ...

maneuver from the sea called an amphibious demonstration as a deception operation.

2015

It was reactivated on 15 October 2015 at

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. It was a redesignation of Command Element, Marine Forces Central Command Forward.

References

External links

Naval Amphibious Force, TF 51-5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
{{USMCmajorcommands Brigades of the United States Marine Corps

History

2015

See also

References

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