The 1st Maintenance Battalion is a battalion of the United States Marine Corps that provide intermediate-level maintenance for the I Marine Expeditionary Force’s tactical ordnance, engineer, motor transport, communications electronics and general support ground equipment. The Marines and Sailors of 1st Maintenance Battalion are regularly assigned and deployed around the world with task-organized logistics command elements that deliver responsive, exceptional tactical logistics support to I MEF units. The command is based out of Las Pulgas, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and is organized under the command of Combat Logistics Regiment 15 within 1st Marine Logistics Group.
Headquarters & Service Company (H&S)Reparable Management Company (RMC)Engineer Maintenance Company (EMC)Ordnance Maintenance Company (OMC)Motor Transportation Maintenance Company (MTM)Provide intermediate level maintenance support, to include wheeled and tracked vehicle recovery, salvage and disposal, and general maintenance support, for I MEF’s ground equipment in order to improve and sustain MAGTF’s combat power. Provide Secondary Reparable Management, including inventory management, storage, financial accounting, and maintenance for secondary and low-density repairables.
Activated 1 October 1947 At Barstow, California, As Maintenance Company, 1st Combat Service Group, Fleet Marine ForceRelocated During October 1947 To Camp Pendleton, CaliforniaRedesignated 22 March 1949 As 1st Maintenance Battalion, 1st Combat Service Group, Service Command, Fleet Marine ForceRedesignated 1 October 1949 As Maintenance Company, 1st Combat Service Group, Service Command, Fleet Marine Force1950-1953Deployed During August 1950 To Kobe, JapanRedeployed During September 1950 To Inchon, KoreaParticipated In The Korean War, Operating From Inchon-Seoul, Chosin Reservoir, East Central Front, And Western FrontDeactivated 19 April 1953Reactivated 2 July 1953 At Camp Pendleton, California as Motor Transport Support Battalion, 1st Combat Service Group, Service Command, Fleet Marine Force1954-1975Redesignated 15 October 1954 As Maintenance Company, 1st Combat Service Group, Service Command, Fleet Marine ForceRedesignated 30 December 1955 As Maintenance Company, 1st Combat Service Group, Fleet Marine ForceRedesignated 1 April 1956 As Maintenance Battalion, 1st Combat Service Group, Fleet Marine ForceRedesignated 1 March 1957 As Material Supply and Maintenance Battalion, 1st Force Service Regiment, Fleet Marine ForceRedesignated 1 September 1964 As Maintenance Battalion, 1st Force Service Regiment, Fleet Marine ForceRedesignated 15 February 1967 As Maintenance Battalion, 1st Force Service Regiment, Force Logistic Command, Fleet Marine ForceParticipated in The War in Vietnam, February 1967 - April 1971, Operating from Da NangRedesignated 23 April 1971 As Maintenance Battalion, 1st Force Service Regiment, Fleet Marine Force and Relocated to Camp Pendleton, California1976-2006Redesignated 30 March 1976 As 1st Maintenance Battalion, 1st Force Service Support Group, Fleet Marine ForceParticipated in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Southwest Asia, 1990-1991Participated in Operation Restore Hope, Somalia, December 1992-March 1993Numerous Elements Participated in Support of Contingency Operations from 1993-2002Deployed During January 2003 To Kuwait in Support of Operation Enduring FreedomParticipated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq March–May 2003Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq, October 2008-March 2009Participated in Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan, April–August 2012On 26 September 2014, 1st Maintenance Battalion was selected as the winner of the Secretary of Defense Field-level Maintenance Award in the large category. The awards will be presented to the winners on 18 November 2014, in the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, during the awards ceremony that’s part of the 2014 DoD Maintenance Symposium.
