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battalion landing team

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In an amphibious operation, an infantry battalion normally reinforced by necessary combat and service elements; the basic unit for planning an assault landing. Also called BLT.


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The suspects, identified as Nadzmir Amirul alias Abu Kudama, 18, and a 14-year old companion who was not named, were arrested when their motorcycle reached a Marine checkpoint that was set up by the 5th Marine Battalion Landing Team in Patikul, Sulu Island on Friday afternoon," said Clemen.
After almost a month of successfully conducting raids, convoys, civil affairs and other missions as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, members of Battalion Landing Team 2/2 ("The Warlords"), attached to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), boarded ships and began the long journey home.
Nearly 120 years later, on 8 March 1965, Marines of Battalion Landing Team 3/9 came ashore at Red Beach 2, just north of modern Danang City.
 
 
 
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