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The battalion utilizes the Unit Deployment Program to fill its four firing batteries with detachments from artillery units across the Marine Corps

The firing batteries are not permanently assigned to the battalion - they are all on 6-month rotations in Okinawa from the 10th Marine Regiment and the 11th Marine Regiment (Unit Deployment Program (UDP))

They were stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

and now we lie In Flanders fields

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