Various Battalion elements participated in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and Cuba from 2002 – 2008. The Battalion also supported humanitarian relief efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi in response to Hurricane Katrina from September–October 2005. 8th Communication Battalion deployed during January 2003 to Kuwait in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and participated in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Iraq, March–June 2003; since then the Battalion and its Detachments have deployed successive occasions in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM including February 2005 to March 2006, January 2007 to February 2008 and during 2009. 8th Communication Battalion continued to support operations in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in Afghanistan through 2014, as well as its traditional mission of providing robust detachments for rotational deployments by the 22nd, 24th, and 26th Marine Expeditionary Units.