Unit personnel subsequently deployed at various times as the Battalion Landing Team 1/6 in Okinawa, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean from January 1950.

The next day she sailed for the New Hebrides, anchoring in Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo Island, 15 March to embark the 2d Battalion Landing Team, 105th Regiment, 27th Infantry Division.

Battalion Landing Team, United States Marine Corps term for the ground combat element of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)

November 2000 - The 26th MEU's Battalion Landing Team, BLT 2/2, launched the first ever FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile fired by a deployed MEU.

In January 2011, 2/5 was again designated as a Battalion Landing Team (BLT) as part of the 31st MEU.

In December 1998 2/4 participated as the Battalion Landing Team (BLT) for the 31 Marine Expeditionary Unit Special Operations Capable (MEUSOC).

In June the USS Duluth embarked 1st Bn 9th Marines, from Camp Pendleton, California, as Battalion Landing Team One Slant Nine and set out on its six month WestPac tour.

However, it typically consists of three platoons: a Force Reconnaissance Platoon as the assault element, an Amphibious Reconnaissance Platoon as the support element, and a Battalion Landing Team infantry platoon as the security element.

On December 1, 1990, the battalion deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Shield as a Battalion Landing Team (BLT), with the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB).

Battalion Landing Team 1/3 lost a total of 45 Marines during the course of their first combat tour in Iraq.