14th Marine Regiment (United States)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 14th Marine Regiment


caption= 14th Marines insignia
dates= 26 Nov 1918 - 19 June 1919
1 June 1943 - 20 Nov 1945
1 Feb 1966 - present
country= United States
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branch= USMC
type= Artillery
role= Provide fires in support of 4th Marine Division
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command_structure= 4th Marine Division
Marine Forces Reserve
current_commander= Colonel John A. Koenig
garrison=Fort Worth, Texas
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battles= World War II
* Battle of Kwajalein
* Battle of Saipan
* Battle of Tinian
* Battle of Iwo Jima
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Iraqi Freedom
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The 14th Marine Regiment (14th Marines) is a reserve artillery regiment of the United States Marine Corps comprising four firing battalions and a headquarters battalion. The regiment is based in Fort Worth, Texas however its units are dispersed among 19 different sites in 13 states. Its primary weapon system is the M198 Howitzer with a maximum effective range of 30km however two of its battalions will be converted to fire the HIMARS weapon system.

Mission

14th Marine Regiment provides the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) with a Force Artillery Headquarters in order to command, control, and coordinate Force Artillery delivered fires. On order, 14th Marines assumes the civil military operations mission for the MAGTF with focus on coordinating and achieving unity of effort among all forces and non-military organizations participating in stability operations in the MAGTF’s battle space. [cite web
url=http://www.mfr.usmc.mil/4thmardiv/14thmar/worddocs/Mission%20Regimental.htm
title=14th Marines Regiment Mission
accessdate=2006-09-17]

Current units

* Headquarters Battery (HQ/14) - Fort Worth, Texas
* 1st Battalion 14th Marines (1/14) - Alameda, California
* 2nd Battalion 14th Marines (2/14) - Grand Prairie, Texas
* 3rd Battalion 14th Marines (3/14) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* 4th Battalion 14th Marines (4/14) - Bessemer, Alabama
* 5th Battalion 14th Marines (5/14) - Seal Beach, California4/14 has been redesignated as the Anti-Terror Bn for the 4th Marine Division. It is the only remaining AT Bn in the Marine Corps. Located in Bessemer, Alabama, are the H&S Co, Support Co and E Co. Other companies/Dets are located in Rochester, NY, Chicopee, MA, Tallahassee, FL, Reno, NV, Lafayette, LA.

Missions that the AT Bn has engaged in have been security operations and details in Iraq and the Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonier.

History

World War I

The 14th Marine Regiment was activated at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, on November 26, 1918. It was created to replace the 10th Marine Regiment, an artillery unit, that was being sent to Indian Head Proving Grounds in Maryland to transition to new tractor-mounted 7-inch naval guns. The 14th Marines had a headquarters detachment and ten artillery companies divided into three battalions. Each company was alloted four officers, twenty-four non-commissioned officers, and seventy-five privates. About one-third of their number comprised a cadre of trained artillerymen left behind by the 10th Regiment, the remainder were newly minted Marines fresh from recruit training or part of the pool of men available for overseas deployment.

Throughout this initial tenure, the regiment remained at MCB Quantico and was armed with carriage-mounted Navy 3-inch landing guns. These guns had been developed by the Naval Weaopns Factory at the turn of the century. Unfortunately, these guns and their ammunition were not compatible with contemporary U.S. Army field guns. Training days consisted of three intervals. Mornings were devoted to normal military duties and intfantry drill, afternoons were used for gun drills and technical training, in the evenings junior enlisted men cared for the more than one hundred horses and mules assigned to the regiment.

As part of the massive demobilization of the American military following the signing of the treaties ending World War I, the 14th Marine Regiment was deactivated in June 1919 and would remain inactive until the Second World War. [Brown(1990) pp. 1-3]

World War II

1950s - 1990s

Global War on Terror

See also

* Marine Forces Reserve
* History of the United States Marine Corps
* List of United States Marine Corps regiments

Notes

References

:Marine Corps;Bibliograbhy
* Ronald J. Brown, "A Brief History of the 14th Marines" (Washington, DC: Hist&MusDiv, HQMC, 1990)

;Web
* [http://www.mfr.usmc.mil/4thmardiv/14thmar/ 14th Marine's official website]