Metal Badge - Multinational Force Beirut Lebanon - USMC Marines - L080

Description

Enameled metal badge/hat pin commemorating Marine Corps participation in the Multinational Force in Lebanon/Beirut  1.25" size, 2 clutchback attachments
"The Multinational Force in Lebanon (also MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in 1982, after the demand was made by Lebanon to the UN's secretary general, and initially to oversee the withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The participants included contingents of United States Marines and Navy SEALs, units of the French 11th Parachute Brigade,the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment,the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment, other units of the French Foreign Legion, Italian soldiers, and British soldiers. The force was dissolved in March 1984, soon after the October 1983 Beirut barracks bombing." - Wikipedia