3d Marine Littoral Regiment was activated on March 3, 2022, on Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. 3d MLR was redesignated from 3d Marine Regiment and inherits the lineage of that storied regiment. The Marine Littoral Regiment, as a part of the Stand-in Force, disrupts the adversary in a contested littoral environment through reconnaissance, counter-reconnaissance, and sea denial operations in order to support the maritime campaign.
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Col. Gabriel L. Diana, 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment commanding officer, right, and staff tour the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Vermont...
U.S. Marines with 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, operate the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction...
A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook with 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, prepares to take off after transporting U.S. Marines with 3d...
A U.S. Marine with 3d Littoral Anti-Air Battalion, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, ground guides a Marine Air Defense Integrated...
U.S. Marines with 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, and Marine Wing Support Squadron 174, Marine Aircraft...
A U.S. Marines Corps Marine Air Defense Integrated System with 3d Littoral Anti-Air Battalion, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division,...
3d MLR and 3d LCT Marines trained with a new commercial radar system on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Feb. 25, 2025. The new system increases 3d MLR and...
U.S. Marines with 3rd Maintenance Battalion (3rd MAINT Bn), 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3rd MLG), traveled from Okinawa, Japan, to restore and maintain tactical equipment in support of 3d Marine Littoral Regiment (3d MLR), 3rd Marine Division, following the regiment's deployment to the Philippines.
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Strategically positioned on an island in the Luzon Strait, U.S. Marines with 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, established a Fires Expeditionary Advanced Base (EAB) with the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) and conducted simulated maritime interdiction as a part of Exercise KAMANDAG 9, June 1, 2025. The event was tied to a larger Maritime Key Terrain Security Operation (MKTSO), during which U.S. Marines with 3d LCT and Philippine Marines with Marine Battalion Landing Team 10 rehearsed securing and defending key maritime terrain in the advancement of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific.
Exercise Balikatan 25, the 40th iteration of the long-standing annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. military, has officially concluded. As U.S. Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, Australian Defence Force, and Japanese Self-Defense Force servicemembers, along with those from 16 observer nations, begin retrograding from the Philippines, the U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, look forward to an extended stay. At the invitation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the forward-deployed Marines with 3d MLR will remain in the Philippines for Exercise Kamandag 9, scheduled to commence May 26 and run until June 6, 2025.