Headquarters Company 1st Marines (HQ/1)

Mission Statement

1st Marine Regiment The 1st Marine Regiment consists of one headquarters company and four infantry battalions, one of which is deployed outside the continental United States at all times. Of these 1st Marine Division battalions, two are deployed with the III Marine Expeditionary Force 's 4th Marines under the Unit Deployment Program at Camp Schwab on Okinawa, and the other two are deployed with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Hansen. The infantry battalions are the basic tactical units that the regiment accomplishes its mission of locating, closing with and destroying the enemy by fire and close combat. The 1st Regiment is located in the Horno (53) Area.