page_title: 1st San Marco Regiment
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: 1st San Marco Regiment / Organization
caption_attribution_description: Fanti di marina del reggimento San Marco
context_page_description: The 1st San Marco Regiment, located in Brindisi, is an amphibious formation of the Italian Navy. They are the Italian marines.
  Until the middle of the 1990s the unit was known as the San Marco Battalion, until it was expanded beyond battalion size because of the new geopolitical situation after the end of the Cold War and an increasing number of international missions, after as the San Marco Regiment. In 2013 it became part of the San Marco Marine Brigade as 1st San Marco Regiment.
context_section_description: Naval Landing Force
  1st San Marco Regiment
  Regiment HQ
  Assault Battalion Grado
  Marine Battalion Venezia
  Logistic Support Battalion  Golametto
  Naval Operations Company
  Special Operations Company (Compagnia Operazioni Speciali Andrea Bafile)
  Carlotto Regiment
  Logistic Support Battalion Cortellazzo
  Battalion Schools Caorle
  Landing Vessels Group
  The support elements of the regiment include a telecommunications center; a coordination center for fire support; air observer and coastal defense forces; and staff.
  Advanced force and reconnaissance operations are undertaken by a separate company (“Demolitori di Ostacoli Antisbarco DOA” today called "Compagnia Operazioni Speciali Andrea Bafile"), tasked primarily with the clearing of landing zones and the removal of barriers, obstacles and mines. The marines can be landed by helicopters, speedboats or from submarines. The DOA/Bafile Company trains with the commando frogmen of the Italian Fleet Command Special Forces COMSUBIN GOI, who themselves are drawn largely from the ranks of the San Marco marines. COMSUBIN wear an emerald green beret.
  Another separate company, consisting of about 180 men, the Naval Operation Company, leads the boarding teams. These units of about 8 to 10 men conduct boardings and inspections of shipping, e.g. in embargo measures.
  The Grado battalion contains the actual naval infantry component of the Italian Navy. The battalion consists of a staff and supply company, three naval infantry companies, plus a 'heavy' company.
  Each of the three combat companies consists of three 37 man platoons and a 21-man fire support section. These companies can be brought ashore with amphibious vehicles and boats or with helicopters. In other cases they can operate as mechanized infantry with a modified version of the M113 (“VCC-1”).
  The heavy company forms the combat support component of the battalion with their air defense and anti-armour weapons as well as with the 120mm mortar .
  Logistical support is conducted by the Golametto battalion. It contains transport and logistics companies, as well as a medical unit. The members of this battalion are fully trained naval infantrymen, who give landing operations the necessary combat logistical and technical  support to the Grado battalion. General tasks of support fall into the scope of responsibility of the Carlotto regiment, which supplies the Golametto battalion with the necessary materials before deployment depending upon operational orders .
caption: A detachment of the Grado battalion parading on 2 June 2007
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