2nd Battalion 5th Marines (2/5) is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps consisting of approximately 800 Marines and Sailors. They are based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and fall under the command of the 5th Marine Regiment and the 1st Marine Division. The battalion has seen combat in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War and has deployed many times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the current War on Terror.
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| - 2nd Battalion 5th Marines (2/5) is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps consisting of approximately 800 Marines and Sailors. They are based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and fall under the command of the 5th Marine Regiment and the 1st Marine Division. The battalion has seen combat in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War and has deployed many times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the current War on Terror.
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| - Locate, close with and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver
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| - World War I
- World War II
- Vietnam War
- Korean War
- Operation Desert Storm
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
- * Battle of Guadalcanal
- * Battle of Okinawa
- * 2003 invasion of Iraq
- * Battle of Chosin Reservoir
- * Battle of Inchon
- * Battle of Pusan Perimeter
- * Battle of Belleau Wood
- * Battle of Hue
- * Battle of Peleliu
- * Meuse-Argonne Offensive
- * Battle of Edson's Ridge
- * Battle of Ramadi (2004)
- * Cape Gloucester
- * Operation Union II
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| - 2nd Battalion 5th Marines (2/5) is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps consisting of approximately 800 Marines and Sailors. They are based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and fall under the command of the 5th Marine Regiment and the 1st Marine Division. The battalion has seen combat in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War and has deployed many times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the current War on Terror. 2/5 is the most highly decorated battalion in the Marine Corps and their motto, "Retreat, Hell!", comes from the French trenches of World War I, when a Marine officer named Lloyd W. Williams was ordered to retreat and replied, "Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"
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