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Unit History

This horse carries the battalion's modern wars. The IRAQ quarter marks the 2003 push to Baghdad and the November 2004 fight for Fallujah in Operation Phantom Fury. The AFGHANISTAN quarter marks Sangin, Helmand Province, in 2010 to 2011, where the battalion lost 25 Marines.

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.