Special Notices
General Officer Announcement
On 20 May the Secretary of Defense announced that the President had nominated MajGen Douglas M. Stone for appointment as Commander, Marine Forces Reserve; Commander, Marine Forces North; and for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general. MajGen Stone is currently serving as the Deputy Commanding General, Multinational Force-Iraq (Detainee Operations), and Commanding General, Task Force 134, in Iraq.
3d Battalion, 9th Marines Reactivated
On 20 May, 3d Battalion, 9th Marines (3/9) was officially reactivated at Camp Lejeune. The battalion had been reactivated on 7 December 2007 in order to support the ongoing war on terror.
Prior to the unit’s deactivation in 1994, 3/9’s battle history included fighting on Iwo Jima in 1945 and being the first battalion-sized organization to land in Vietnam in 1965. The battalion’s last operation was in Somalia during Operation RESTORE HOPE in 1992.
