1st Provisional Marine Brigade, a United States Marine Corps ad hoc infantry brigade active in World War II and the Korean War
United States Marine Corps | marine | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | brigade | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | Marine | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | marine (ocean) | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Marine (ocean) | Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Charge of the Light Brigade | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | Commandant of the Marine Corps |
He completed initial aircrew training at 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and was then transferred to 1st Marine Brigade, MCAS Kaneohe, Hawaii.
Upon completion of The Basic School, he was ordered to Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia and then assigned as a Rifle Platoon Commander in Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 1st Marine Brigade, Kaneohe, Hawaii.