They train, rapidly task organize, deploy, employ, fight and redeploy in order to provide direct support logistics combat support to all maneuver elements of II MEF beyond their organic capabilities, in peacetime as well as wartime, in any environment and across the spectrum of conflict in order to allow the II MEF maneuver elements to continue operations independent of any logistically driver operational pauses.

The battalion participated in combat operations at Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, and the Okinawa.

In July 1946, 2d Service Battalion returned to the United States at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

The battalion was reactivated October 19, 1949, at MCB Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

In November 1998 the battalion supported humanitarian relief efforts in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala in the wake of Hurricane Mitch.