December 28, 2020
A Marine with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, receives orders over the radio before conducting breaching exercises aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Dec. 8, 2014. (Lance Cpl. Preston McDonald/Marine Corps)
The year 2021 will go down as the year that the Marine Corps ditched its tank Marines.
Though the official decision came down in March 2020 from Maine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger, and the tanks rolled away on train cars from 1st Tank Battalion, 2nd Tank Battalion, and 4th Tank Battalion this past summer, the tankers themselves are still in uniform and their units remain at least for a few more months.