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The step comes as top U.S. military and political leaders are moving to trim the size of America&#8217;s military after more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marine Corps historians say the battalion appears to have gotten the nickname because of its high rate of casualties during the Vietnam War. But the unit also has a reputation for heroism that included Medal of Honor recipients at Guam and Iwo Jima during World War II and two in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Formed during World War I, the battalion had previously been deactivated in 1994 and reactivated in 2007. Its insignia depicts a cloaked grim reaper carrying a scythe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired Marine Col. Wesley Fox, who received the Medal of Honor while leading a company within the battalion in Vietnam, said he resents the deactivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Not a better battalion in the world. I don&#8217;t know why they&#8217;re the ones who keep getting put on the bench but that&#8217;s the way it goes I guess,&#8221; Fox said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deactivation comes as the Pentagon plans to reduce the size of the Marine Corps by several thousand to 182,000 by 2016 and could cut further. The Corps&#8217; wartime peak in recent years was more than 200,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 300 battalion members who have been reassigned to other units will participate in Friday&#8217;s ceremony, which will include each platoon or company marching to the reviewing stand to salute the battalion commander. Veterans of the unit are also gathering for a reunion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A memo by Marine Corps historian Annette Amerman says the nickname was changed for at least a while starting in 1984 to &#8220;Walking Death&#8221; and the insignia became a dragon because some members thought the older nickname was derogatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, when the battalion was reactivated in 2007, &#8220;Walking Dead&#8221; was once again embraced and the battalion&#8217;s official Marine Corps website currently bears the grim reaper design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the eve of the deactivation, Fox recalled first hearing the nickname in 1968 from a personnel officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He asked me if I wanted the 1\/9, and I said that sounded good to me. 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