1st Intelligence Battalion

1st Intelligence Battalion (1st Intel) is a United States Marine Corps military intelligence and counter intelligence unit based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. They provide the I Marine Expeditionary Force with intelligence products and analysis.

Mission
Responsible for planning, directing, collecting, processing, producing and disseminating intelligence, and providing counterintelligence support to the Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), MEF Major Subordinate Commands, subordinate Marine Air Ground Task Forces (MAGTF), and other commands as directed.

Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, Intelligence Operations, MCWP 2-1 (Washington, DC: Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, 19 February 1998),pg 4-6, http://www.marines.mil/news/publications/Documents/MCWP%202-1%20Intelligence%20Operations.pdf

Subordinate units

 * Headquarters Company
 * Production and Analysis Company
 * Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence Company
 * Production and Analysis Support Company
 * Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence Support Company

Unit awards

 * Presidential Unit Citation
 * Joint Meritorious Unit Citation
 * Navy Unit Commendation
 * Meritorious Unit Commendation
 * National Defense Service Medal
 * Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
 * Southwest Asia Service Medal
 * Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal

Unit awards
A unit citation or commendation is an award bestowed upon an organization for the action cited. Members of the unit who participated in said actions are allowed to wear on their uniforms the awarded unit citation. 1st Intelligence Battalion has been presented with the following awards: