The 1st Marine Division is the oldest, largest and most decorated Marine division. Headquartered at Camp Pendleton, California, the Division is a force of 20,000 men and women organized to conduct combat operations.

The 1st Marine Division. Headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., 1st Marine Division is a multi-role, expeditionary ground combat force. The Division is employed as the ground combat element of I Marine Expeditionary Force or may provide task-organized forces for assault operations and such operations as may be directed.

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Commanding General, 1st Marine Division Major General Thomas B. Savage Major General Savage enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1986, is a graduate of California State University, Chico, and was commissioned in August 1991.

Deactivated 1 November 1931. 1941-1949. Reactivated 1 March 1941 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and assigned to the 1st Marine Division Relocated during April 1941 to Parris Island, South Carolina ... California, and reassigned to the 1st Marine Division Deactivated 1 October 1949. 1950-1964. Reactivated 4 August 1950 at Camp Pendleton, California ...

Headquarters Battalion provides communications and information systems network, motor transportation, security, administration and personnel support to the 1st Marine Division in order to facilitate the Division's ability to command and control.

1st Marine Division was activated aboard the battleship USS Texas on February 1, 1941. It is the oldest, largest and most decorated division in the United States Marine Corps. The Division is comprised of Headquarters Battalion, 1st, 5th, 7th, and 11th Marine Regiments, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st and 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance ...

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Participated in the Battalion transplacement system between the 1st Marine Division and the 3rd Marine Division during June 1959 - July 1960. Participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis, October-December 1962.