Made for a relaxed vibe, this incredibly soft, comfortable fleece is elevated by a unique vintage-inspired pigment dye for a lived-in look and feel.
10.9-ounce, garment-dyed 80/20 combed ring spun cotton/recycled polyester
100% ring spun cotton face
2x2 rib knit neck
Side seamed
2x2 rib knit cuffs and hem
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).

