Radio Battalion

In fleet operations, teams from Radio Battalions are most often attached to the command element of Marine Expeditionary Units.

Radio Reconnaissance Platoons serve in a special operations role where the use of standard collection teams is not possible, such as covert infiltrations or tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel (TRAP).

The 3rd Radio Intelligence Platoon was also formed in June 1943 and took part in the Battles of the Kwajalein Atoll and Okinawa.

In 1955 then Captain Gray was tasked with forming two SIGINT units, one to be assigned to Europe and the other to the Pacific area,[1] chosen from Marines undergoing Manual Morse intercept training.

In 1958 then-Captain Gray was assigned to Hawaii to form and activate the 1st Radio Company, a tactical signals intelligence (SIGINT) unit, where he would serve from September 1958 to May 1961.

They remained there during part of the early China Occupation, and most of them returned to the United States near the end of January and February 1946.

June 1959 Relocated from Camp Smith to Kaneohe Bay, Marine Corps Air Station.

2 January 1962 Deployed to Pleiku, South Vietnam as Detachment One under the command of Captain John K. Hyatt, Jr. 17 September 1963 Redesignated as 1st Radio Company, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

April 1972 Elements returned to South Vietnam in support of the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Miller abroad the U.S.S Blue Ridge and other naval ships.

Casualties World War II (20–23 September 1944 Peleliu Island 'Palau Group', Carolina Islands) Wounded in Action Name (Military Occupational Specialty) Keith K. Bean (776 High Speed Intercept Operator) Carter D. Bucy (405 Administration) Edward W. Clark (641 Telephoneman) Glenn C. Erwin (641 Telephoneman) Julius f. Harder (739 High Speed Intercept Operator) John H. Maynard (766 High Speed Radio Operator) H. Riffle (unknown) Killed in Action Rank/Name/ Service No.

(MOS)/Date of Death PFC William J. Hughes Jr. 00500585 (unknown) 23 September 1944 Cpl Josephe A. Prete 00440073 (739 Intercept Operator) 20 September 1944 Cpl Stephen J. Weber 00454532 (unknown) 20 September 1944 Vietnam Killed in Action Rank/Name/MOS/Date of Death Capt James Westley Ayers 2502, 26 May 1967 Cpl Stephen Lee Traughber 2575, 10 September 1967 LCpl Larry Allan Jones 2571, 24 April 1968 Sgt Paul Jay Kingery 2571, 13 May 1968 MGySgt Edward Reynold Storm 2578, 28 December 1969 Sgt Larry Wade Duke 2571, 10 March 1970 Sgt Robert Hrisoulis 2571, 21 January 1971 Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan Killed in Action Sgt Lucas Todd Pyeatt 2676, 5 February 2011 Unit Honors World War II American Campaign Streamer Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Streamer with three Bronze Stars 1.

1970 – 1971 Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm Streamer – 1969 – 1970 National Defense Service Streamer – 1969 – 1970 Army Meritorious Unit Commendation – Elements of 1st Radio Battalion, FMF serving with the 7th Radio Research Field Station, Udorn, Thailand (11 November 1970 – 26 February 1971) Philippine Presidential Unit Commendation – Elements of the 1st Radio Battalion, FMF serving with the 9th MAB during 21 July 1972 – 15 August 1972[4] Operation Iraqi Freedom During the battle for Diyala Bridge in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), 1st RadBn supported Regimental Combat Team-1 (RCT-1) with an operational control element (OCE) and a SIGINT Support Team (SST) that identified Iraqi conduct of fire nets and Iraqi forward observers preparing to call in artillery fire on RCT-1.

Paul Boothroyd of 2nd Radio Battalion notably survived being shot in the head by a round fired from a 7.62 x 54mm Dragunov sniper in Afghanistan.

[6] On the same deployment, during a combat operation, Sgt Lucas Todd Pyeatt was killed by an IED while approaching Taliban insurgents in Machi Kehyl, Kajaki District, Helmand Province.

Also notably, just weeks prior to the death of Sgt Pyeatt, LCpl Marcus Dandrea had also suffered injuries due to an IED and was awarded the Purple Heart after losing both of his legs and receiving extensive damage to one of his hands.

Following the units return from Iraq in February 2006, 3d Radio Battalion began focusing on supporting the Global War on Terrorism, most notably by providing personnel to SOCPAC in support of Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines In October 2008 3rd Radio Battalion deployed as part of SPMAGTF-A to Helmand Province in Southern Afghanistan as part of the ISAF troop surge, and participated in several major operations including the Battle of Now Zad as well as Operation Khanjar.