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Reshaping the RaidersThe 2nd Raiders boarded a transport on 15 December and returned to Camp
Gung Ho on Espiritu Santo. There they recuperated in pyramidal tents in
a coconut grove along the banks of a river. The camp and the chow were
Spartan, and the only relief came when a ship took the battalion to New
Zealand in The Corps activated the 4th Raider Battalion in Southern California on 23 October 1942. Major Roosevelt commanded this new unit. The 3rd and 4th Raiders both arrived in Espiritu Santo in February 1943. There as yet existed no common raider table of organization. Carlson
retained his six companies of two rifle platoons and a weapons platoon.
Griffith adopted the fire team concept, but added a fourth man to each
team and retained the four rifle companies and a weapons company established
by Edson. Roosevelt's battalion had four rifle companies plus a Demolition
and Engineer Company. On 15-March 1943 the Marine Corps created the 1st Raider Regiment and
gave it control of all four battalions. Liversedge, now a colonel, took
charge of the new organization. A week later, Lieutenant
Colonel Alan Shapley took over command of the 2nd Raiders. He was
an orthodox line officer who had earned a Navy Cross on board the Arizona
(BB 39) on 7 December 1941. He The regiment enforced a common organization among the battalions. The
result was a mixture of Edson and Carlson's ideas. Carlson bequeathed
his fire team and squad to the raiders (and later to the Corps as a whole).
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