1st Tank Battalion Original Patch Blue Line Eisenhower became the first president

Eisenhower became the first president to fly aboard a Marine helicopter in 1957

Vietnam-era Marine aviators

and tried to protect

the 236th conducted Dust Off helicopter medevac operations across the theater

creating the light attack helicopter squadrons that operate today

1st Tank Battalion Original Patch Blue Line Eisenhower became the first president1st Tank Battalion Original Patch Embroidered Patch First Tanks 1st Tank Battalion, USMC From the jungles of Guadalcanal to the deserts of Iraq, 1st Tank Battalion brought the thunder that shook the battlefield and brought Marines home alive. This patch honors the original insignia of the longest serving tank battalion in Marine Corps history a unit that wrote the book on armored warfare from the sea. Activated on 1 November 1941 at Camp Lejeune,