To task organize forces in General Support to the MEF; providing mobility, counter-mobility, survivability, general engineering, and explosive ordnance disposal in order to ensure a maneuver and tempo advantage.
Current units
The 8th Engineer Support Battalion consists of the following Companies
Headquarters and Service Company
Engineer Support Company
Bravo Company
Charlie Company
2nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company
Bulk Fuel Company
History
Marines of the 8th ESB work at night to lay concrete as they reconstruct a damaged section of road during a route repair mission in the Tharthar region of Al Anbar, Iraq. August 2007
1950–1989
Activated 11 December 1950 at Camp Geiger, North Carolina, as 8th Engineer Battalion,
Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, Relocated to Camp LeJeune, North Carolina in 1958
Assigned during September 1962 to Force Troops, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic
Redesingated 1 January 1976 as 8th Engineer Support Battalion,
Force Troops/ 2d Force Service Support Group,
Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic
Provided combat service support to Marine Amphibious Units in the United States,
Caribbean, and Mediterranean
Elements provided disaster relief support to Charleston, South Carolina,
after Hurricane Hugo, September–October 1989
Elements participated in Haitian refugee operations, Cuba,
November 1991 – October 1992
Elements provided disaster relief support to southern Florida after Hurricane Andrew,
September–October 1992
Elements provided bridging support to the State of Florida, Volusia County, during wildfires, July 1998.
Elements provided disaster relief support to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Georges,
September–November 1998 (CSSD-68)
Elements provided disaster relief support to Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala
after Hurricane Mitch, November 1998 – April 1999 (CSSD-69)
2000–2010
Deployed during February 2003 to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom
Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq, March–May 2003
