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Unit History

Rōnin is the Japanese word for a masterless samurai, a warrior without a lord. India Company, 3/5 patrolled Sangin in 2010; a DVIDS report from Patrol Base Fulod tells how a combat engineer on point found a buried IED by hand and saved an entire fire team.

Activated: 1 June 1917.

Key battles: Belleau Wood (World War I); the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon, Seoul and the Chosin Reservoir (Korea); Operation Swift (Vietnam, 1967); Sangin, Helmand Province (Afghanistan, 2010–11).

Name: The Marine Corps' official history of the Chosin Reservoir campaign calls the battalion "Darkhorse."

Honors: 13 Presidential Unit Citations. Sgt Lawrence Peters and Navy chaplain Lt Vincent Capodanno were killed in action during Operation Swift on 4 September 1967, and both received the Medal of Honor.

Sources: USMC History Division, Lineage and Honors of 3d Battalion, 5th Marines; 1st Marine Division, official 3/5 page; Congressional Medal of Honor Society; Encyclopaedia Britannica, "rōnin"; DVIDS, story 62942 (Sangin, 2010).