4th Reconnaissance Battalion, USMC (Reserve)

4th Reconnaissance Battalion (Reserve) is a reconnaissance battalion in the United States Marine Corps. It falls under the command of the 4th Marine Division and the Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES). 4th Reconnaissance Battalion currently consists of five companies: Headquarters and Service (San Antonio TX), Bravo (Smyrna GA), Charlie (San Antonio TX), Delta (Albuquerque NM), and Echo (Joliet IL). The mission of 4th Reconnaissance Battalion is to provide task organized forces in order to conduct amphibious reconnaissance, ground reconnaissance, battlespace shaping operations, raids, and specialized insertion and extraction. The following are examples of missions outlined to 4th Reconnaissance Battalion: • Plan, coordinate, and conduct amphibious-ground reconnaissance and surveillance to observe, identify, and report enemy activity, and collect other information of military significance. • Conduct specialized surveying to include: underwater reconnaissance and/or demolitions, beach permeability and topography, routes, bridges, structures, urban/rural areas, helicopter landing zones (LZ), parachute drop zones (DZ), aircraft forward operating sites, and mechanized reconnaissance missions. • Infiltrate mission areas by necessary means to include: surface, subsurface and airborne operations. • Conduct counter-reconnaissance. • Designate and engage selected targets with organic weapons and force fires to support battlespace shaping. • Conduct limited scale raids and ambushes.