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Round shaped poker chip, red and white in color, 1 1/2 inches in diameter.

1st Battalion, 9th Marines.

FROM WCTI-TV Channel 12 in Jacksonville, North Carolina on 29 August 2014: JACKSONVILLE, ONSLOW COUNTY -

"The Walking Dead" --one of the U.S. military's most decorated units-- was deactivated on Friday (29 August) at Camp Lejeune. LtCol. Corey Collier explained how the 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment became known as "The Walking Dead." "Ho Cho Minh said that he was going to wipe the battalion out. He said, 'We are going to wipe them out. They're already dead man walking.' The battalion said, 'Come and get us. We'll take that name,'" recalled LtCol. Collier. "The Walking Dead" spent 48 months in combat in Vietnam. LtCol. Collier said no other unit in history has seen that amount of continuous contact with the enemy.

In its latest active service, the unit saw action in Operation Desert Storm and both Iraq and Afghanistan.