It also conducted vehicle recovery missions and contact team visits and provided a squad of female Marines to assist in screening and searching Iraqi women at entry control points and checkpoints.

During these deployments, CLB 8 sailors and Marines conducted convoy operations, route security, road sweeps, and maintenance and explosive ordnance removal support.

In 2011, CLB 8 conducted a six day convoy that escorted the Logistics Kandak (Battalion) of the 215th Corps of the Afghan National Army to its headquarters in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Four months after returning from its third Afghan mission, CLB 8 was deactivated aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Just shy of two years from its deactivation date, CLB 8's colors flew again when, on October 1, 2015, the battalion was reactivated and assigned to Combat Logistics Regiment 2.

In October 2022, CLB-8 was assigned as the “experimental battalion”, testing new equipment and personnel structures in accordance with USMC Force Design 2030.