1. Reactivated again in October 1949, the battalion has since regularly deployed to the Caribbean and
Mediterranean regions. 1/2 has seen operational service during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962),
Dominican intervention (1965), operations in the Persian Gulf (1987 and 1988), Eastern Exit (Somalia
evacuation, 1991), Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990–91), Haitian refugee (1992), Somalia (1993),
and Cuba (1994), Operation Noble Obelisk-Freetown, Sierra Leone (1997). The unit has also deployed
with the Unit Deployment Program and Camp Lejeune-based MEUs