3rd Littoral Anti-Air Battalion is a United States Marine Corps aviation command and control and air defense unit that is optimized for operations in the first island chain. The battalion is based at
3d LAAB insignia
Battery G, 3d Defense Battalion, Pearl Harbor, 1940
3rd Defense Battalion with a 90 mm antiaircraft gun at Guadalcanal
An MIM-23 Hawk missile is fired by the 3rd Light Anti-aircraft Missile Battalion during a training exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Robert H. Pepper
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Robert Houston Pepper was an officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general, who is most noted for his work in the development of the Marine defense battalions during Wo
3rd Littoral Anti-Air Battalion
…Base Paris Island, South Carolina in early October 1939 and was redesignated as the 3rd Defense Battalion on 10 October 1939 under Lieutenant colonel Robert H. Pepper. By December 1939 the battalion consisted of a Headquarters & Services Battery, the 5" Artillery Unit (H&S, A, B, and C Batteries), the 3" AAA Unit…
Robert H. Pepper as MG
Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Pepper (second from right) with the staff of 3rd Defense Battalion on Hawaii
CPT Don King; Parris Island Head Coach, MJR John T. Hill; CPT Billy Hayes; Lieutenant General Graves B. Erskine (Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic) at the Norfolk Naval Base and Major General Robert H. Pepper (MCRDPI), 1952 – All Marine Champions
Grave at Arlington National Cemetery