Combat Logistics Battalion 7 Combat Logistics Battalion 7 ( CLB 7 ) is a logistics battalion of the United States Marine Corps . The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms , California and fall under the command of the 1st Marine Logistics Group ( 1st MLG ) and I Marine Expeditionary Force ( I MEF ) . Mission . Wartime mission . Conducts direct support combat service support operations in I MEF zone , with priority support to Combat Service Support Companies supporting Regimental Combat Teams ( RCTs ) . MCAGCC mission . Provide combat service support to I MEF units based at MCAGCC , to the Exercise Support Division at MCAGCC , Marine Corps exercise forces operating at MCAGCC , and 23rd Dental Company , beyond organic capabilities . CLB - 7 will also provide combat service support to MCAGCC base and other units as directed by the Commanding General , 1st Marine Logistics Group . Table of organization . Headquarters & Service Company . Comprising three functional platoons responsible for both the internal support of Combat Logistics Battalion - 7 as well as external support to units based or training aboard MCAGCC Support Company . Provide intermediate maintenance capabilities to I MEF and MCAGCC units and exercise forces deployed to MCAGCC . – Provide secondary reparable support through the Repairable Issue Point ( RIP ) . History . Early years 1976 – 1989 . Activated 30 August 1976 at Twentynine Palms California , as detachment A , 1st Force Service Support Group , Fleet Marine Force . Redesignated 27 December 1989 as Combat Service Support Detachment 12 , Fleet Marine Force . The Gulf War and the 1990s . Participated in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm , Southwest Asia , August 1990 – April 1991 . Redesignated 2 August 1991 as 1st Force Service Support Group , Forward , Fleet Marine Force . Redesignated 1 August 1992 as Combat Service Support Group 1 , Fleet Marine Force . Participated in Support of the Hunter Warrior Advanced Warfighting Experiment , January – March 1997 . The Global War on Terror . Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom , Iraq , March – June 2003 providing logistic support to the 1st Marine Division on its march to Baghdad . The Battalion redeployed to Iraq from August 2004 – February 2005 in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II . Redesignated 1 April 2005 as Combat Logistics Battalion 7 and Reassigned to Combat Logistics Regiment 1 , 1st Marine Logistics Group . The battalion redeployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the beginning of 2006 and provided logistics to Marine units in the Al Anbar province . CLB - 7 undertook their third deployment to Iraq from February to September 2008 . The battalion ' s Marines were stationed at Camp Fallujah , Camp Ramadi and Al Asad Airbase where they provided support to the infantry battalions , conducted logistics convoys , handled security for some EOD ( explosive ordnance disposal ) missions , conducting Arrival / Departure Air Control Group ( A / DACG ) operations as well as providing security for recovery missions . ” Unit awards . A unit citation or commendation is an award bestowed upon an organization for the action cited . Members of the unit who participated in said actions are allowed to wear on their uniforms the awarded unit citation . CLB - 7 has been presented with the following awards :