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It includes the main battle formations and subordinate units. The 1st marine division provides roughly 25,000 combatready marines and sailors as ground forces for rapid deployment throughout the world. The time the corps wore shoulder unit patches marine corps times. For many 1st marine division men joining another unit and having to relinquish the wearing of the 1st division patch. Camp blue diamond, iraq soldiers with company a, 9th psychological operations battalion airborne received 1st marine division patches during a ceremony held here july 9.
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