Welcome Aboard
We are excited to bring you onto our team here in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Currently as you’re reading this, 2d Intelligence Battalion is diligently processing critical intelligence and expanding analytic baselines on key threats across the globe. The entirety of our team seeks to optimize ourselves so we can fulfill our motto of “Videmus, Audimus, Novimus.” The Latin phrase means “We See, We Hear, We Know” and is the essence of how 2d Intelligence Battalion pushes each Marine to enable our mission. Here at the battalion, you will see a professional, driven, and focused team. We pride ourselves in cultivating a warrior mindset, representing the best II MEF has to offer so we can fight and win. So come ready to integrate into a unit that is working hard to prime multiple elements across the MAGTF and Joint Force across the spectrum of conflict and global competition
Who We Are: Where We Come From and Who We Are Today
2d Intelligence Battalion’s origins began in 1969 as the Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (SARC) during the Vietnam War. The model continued through 1988 before transitioning to 2d Intelligence Company, 2d Surveillance Reconnaissance Intelligence Group (SRIG), II MEF on 1 February 1989. The new formation supported Operation DESERT SHIELD, Operation DESERT STORM, and operations in Southwest Asia in 1991.
Within a few years, the unit was reassigned to multiple structures from 1994 to 1999 within the SRIG. In April 1999, 2d Intelligence Battalion was formally designated as a battalion under II MEF. Throughout the 1990s, 2d Intelligence Battalion participated in various operations and exercises before Operation IRAQI FREEDOM and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM from 2004 to 2014.
Today, 2d Intelligence Battalion is aligned under II MEF Information Group at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and has continued to support multiple theaters across the globe. From exercises to crisis to steady state operations and now the global competition spectrum – 2d Intelligence Battalion continues to provide ready and capable Marines. We deliver critical intelligence support to enable mission success wherever we are called to serve.