Marines in matching custom unit shirts printed by Mabuhay Designs at Camp Lejeune

II MEF

Custom UnitGear.

Built local. Printed fast.

Unit shirts, deployment gear, and morale merch for every command and MSC inside II Marine Expeditionary Force.

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Location 34.7516° N · 77.4619° W
Proximity 5 mi from Camp Lejeune Gates
Trade DTF · II MEF · Battalion · Company
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2024 Established Jacksonville, NC
Military-Family Ownership Owned and operated locally
5 mi Distance From Camp Lejeune gates
DTF + Press In-shop Printed in-house, no outsourcing
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What we print.

Every job runs through the same shop. DTF printer, heat press, nothing outsourced.

Featured work

Real Marines. Real gear. Real deadlines.

Photos from the units we've produced gear for — straight from the posts and tags on our Facebook page.

Semper Fi shoutouts to every unit that's trusted us. Veteran-owned, family-operated. Ready for your next order when you are.

In the shop

200 shirts. One day. All in-house.

Straight off our press — the Wounded Warrior Battalion-East run rolling through, printed, pressed, and packaged under one roof in Jacksonville. No brokers, no outsourcing, no waiting on somebody else's schedule.

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Materials & testing

Torture-tested before we sold shirt one.

We didn’t open for business and figure it out on your gear. Before the first order ever went out, we ran our own testing program — inks, powders, films, and blanks against each other, then deliberately abusing the prints to find what fails. What you buy today is the combination that wouldn’t crack, peel, or fade.

  1. Component trials

    Before we sold shirt one, we tested every ink, every DTF powder, every film, and every blank we could get on the press — down to running viscosity tests on the inks. If a component didn’t perform, it never reached production.

  2. Torture tests

    Then we broke the rules on purpose — everything the DTF care instructions tell you never to do to a print, we did to ours. Cracking, peeling, fading: we hunted for every failure. Only the combinations that survived became our standard.

  3. The 8-step press

    Most shops press once and ship. Every garment here runs an eight-step pressing process tuned to its fabric — the reason our prints come out more durable and softer at the same time.

Passed testing — current lineup

  • 50/50 blend tees The workhorse — soft hand, holds a DTF print flat, survives the laundry rotation.
  • 100% poly performance PT and moisture duty. Pressed on a low-temp recipe so the fabric never glosses or scorches.
  • Heavyweight cotton For the classic feel — pressed hot so the ink bonds deep into the weave.
  • Fleece — crews & hoodies Cold-weather unit orders. Tested on the thick seams where cheap prints crack first.

If it cracks, peels, or fades in our testing, it never touches your gear. Ask what fits your unit →

Who we've outfitted

Units that trust Mabuhay with their gear.

Every unit shirt starts with a roster. Here's a snapshot of units, training schools, and courses we've already produced gear for — Marine infantry battalions, Navy Corpsman classes, logistics companies, MOS schoolhouses. Any branch, any course, any roster size.

Veteran-owned, family-operated. Five miles from the Camp Lejeune main gate. No minimums · Fast turnaround · 24/7 pickup.
See the full Camp Lejeune unit directory → · Unit, school, or course not on the list yet? Start a quote →

Designed in Jacksonville.
Built for Marines.

We started as a family shop five miles from the Lejeune main gate. A dozen years later we're still here — same bench, same press, same people. Every unit shirt, every homecoming run, every class-of-XYZ tee leaves our door on a first-name basis.

We're not the shop that ships from across the country. We're the shop you can drop in on before formation.

  • i. Printed in-house. No outsourcing, no middlemen.
  • ii. Military family runs the place. We know the rhythm.
  • iii. Local pickup. Or we ship direct to your POC.
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The mark

The real thing.

That sunrise-and-surf mark is our family's, not a franchise's. A veteran-owned shop where the person who takes your order is the person at the press. When you see it on a shirt, it was designed, printed, and pressed by us in Jacksonville — nothing brokered out.

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II MEF · Expeditionary Gear

When the force moves, the gear should already fit.

II Marine Expeditionary Force covers roughly 45,000 Marines and Sailors spread across Lejeune, Cherry Point, and New River — with a deployable footprint that includes the 22nd, 24th, and 26th MEUs. Running a shirt order for a command under II MEF means accepting the timeline will shift. Deployments slide. Rosters change. Sizes get revised three times before the first print.

We have built the workflow for that: quote first, lock roster later, print in batches if the deployment window tightens. If a company needs 120 shirts printed yesterday because the manifest changed, we have done it. We will do it again.

  • 01.Short-fuse orders under 72 hours — call ahead, we will confirm the window.
  • 02.Deployment-approved color palettes (no bright whites that get flagged).
  • 03.Split orders: half at pickup, half shipped to an FPO address.
Word on the street

What customers say about Mabuhay.

Yesterday afternoon our regular print shop messaged saying they wouldn't be able to get us the shirts as they had a machine malfunction. Mabuhay made our shirts last minute for us! They came out absolutely amazing and everyone at the event got an awesome shirt!
★★★★★ Strutt With Your Mutt Same-day rescue · 2026
  • "We cannot thank Mabuhay Designs & Co LLC enough for coming through for the Strutt with your Mutt 5K when something fell through with another printer! We appreciate the quality of work and fitting us in for a great cause!"
    ★★★★★ Adoption First Animal Rescue Rush rescue · 2026
  • "Ya'll check out my good friend Mabuhay Designs & Co LLC. I hit him up needed emergency print same day and he came through with a clutch. Very professional and welcoming. He offers customs and much more. Very fast services."
    ★★★★★ Dope Soul Studios Emergency same-day · 2026
  • "Another successful rush order completed — 100 shirts produced on short notice, front and back design, same day. Our team specializes in fast, dependable service without compromising quality."
    ★★★★★ English Country Barn 100 shirts · same-day · 2026

How it works

Request → Draft → Print.

The same four steps, every order. Clear handoffs. Transparent pricing.

  1. Request

    Submit the roster — every person, every item, sizes, colors, design.

  2. Draft

    We review, confirm stock, send an itemized Square invoice for approval.

  3. Approve

    Pick the payment split — one invoice, per-person, partial, or outside.

  4. Print

    DTF + press run in-shop. Local pickup 5 mi, or we ship to your POC.

Next step

Start your
quote.

Your unit's next order starts with a roster.

Tell us what you need. We'll review quantities, sizes, placements, and your design — then draft an itemized invoice for your approval. Payment processing is a flat 3.5% shown upfront. No surprise fees.

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