page_title: 2nd Mechanized Battalion (Croatia)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: 2nd Mechanized Battalion (Croatia) / History
caption_attribution_description: Badge of the regular Croatian military unit "Pume" (Pumas) during the War of Independence
context_page_description: The 2nd Mechanized Battalion "Pumas" is the largest of two mechanized infantry battalions within the Armoured Mechanized Guard Brigade of the Croatian Army.
context_section_description: Established in its current form following the reorganisation of the Croatian Armed Forces, the 2nd Mechanized Battalion "Pume" was created with the amalgamation Croatia's wartime 7th Guards Brigade "Pumas" and 2nd Guards Brigade "Thunders" in 2007. 
  Initially garrisoned at the 132nd Brigade barracks in Našice in eastern Croatia, following the consolidation of the 7th and 2nd Guard Brigades, in 2018 the battalion returned to a newly built garrison in Varaždin, Northern Croatia named in honour of the 7th Guards Brigade "Pumas".
caption: Badge of the 7th Guard Brigade "Pumas" (1992-2003)