Posted on 12/16/2021 11:45:55 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
The Marine Corps announced that it is restricting its amphibious assault vehicles (AAVs) from operating in the water for the foreseeable future — a major limitation for a vehicle designed to take Marines from ship to shore.
Eight Marines and a Navy corpsman died when an AAV sank hundreds of feet into the ocean during exercises on July 30, 2020.
A series of four subsequent investigations by the Marine Corps and the Navy found that no single problem caused the AAV to sink that day. Instead, a combination of poor maintenance and training, safety shortcuts, and mechanical failures led to the fatal mishap that Marine leaders have said was “preventable.”
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The decision to keep the AAVs out of the water comes two months after the release of the last of those reports.
“The Commandant of the Marine Corps has decided the AAV will no longer serve as part of regularly scheduled deployments or train in the water during military exercises; AAVs will only return to operating in the water if needed for crisis response,” Marine Corps spokesman Maj. James Stenger said in a statement emailed to Military.com on Wednesday.
The AAVs have been in service since the 1970s.
Stenger said that the Corps “stands by the efficacy of the recommendations that came from the multiple investigations into the AAV mishap” and that “the AAV is a safe and effective vehicle for amphibious operations.”
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I think I’ll design some tank floaties........
Backup airbags seems like a no brainer.
Then the vehicles really should not be called amphibious.
Maintenance in the Navy and the Marines seems to be problematic - the Zumwalt was allowed to rust in port, even its “stealth’ tiles were discolored.
...a combination of poor maintenance and training, safety shortcuts, and mechanical failures led to the fatal mishap
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Meanwhile, the woke upper echelon of the military is focused on pronouns.
If the Marines can’t do the one thing they are uniquely supposed to be doing as a core mission, we might as well get rid of the Corps entirely and roll everyone into the Army or the Reserves.
There’s supposed to be a replacement vehicle called a ACV, but it is having some problems too.
“Maintenance in the Navy and the Marines seems to be problematic”
Maybe some of those fellows are afraid of ruining their manicure.
My MOS training was at Little Creek, which was also where the Amtrack training was. This was 30 years ago, and those things looked pretty bad then.
Maybe some of those fellows are afraid of ruining their manicure
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Could be ... but the simpler explanation is the Pentagon Navy brass does not care, or they’ve used some of the maintenance budget to fix their prize toys : LCS ships, DDG1000, CVN Ford, F-35B-Cs etc.
The Marines getting rid of their tanks, artillery, and beaching their once proud AAVs may just be one of the symptoms of the general weakening of the US military in Brandon’s plan to destroy the US and its military
Print it louder so China can hear.
” when an AAV sank hundreds of feet into the ocean”
Thank GOD it wasn’t THOUSANDS of feet!
—git rid of the corp? Well a couple more clotshot mandates should take care of that. Maybe they will let us take a rusty AAV home with us?——semper fi
“..a combination of poor maintenance and training, safety shortcuts, and mechanical failures led to the fatal mishap”
I am sure brand new ones that cost billions will not require maintenance, training, bypassing safety protocols, and have mechanical failures.
Poor training is a great reason to stop training. That way when they are needed they won’t know how to safely use them.
AAVs will only return to operating in the water if needed for crisis response,”
Cause everyone knows that you want to go into a crisis
with equipment you weren’t allowed to train with.
I would bet the same is true of the other services as well, just less visible. Look at the number of aircraft crashes the Air Force seems to have regularly now, probably due to poor maintenance and lack of flight training hours. I believe in the 90s Clinton "solved" the training hours problem then by just slashing the requirements in half.
When reporting honestly on the state of the unit under your command ruins your career or leads to separation, you can bet that just about every every ship, tank and aircraft in service is rated "100% ready". It seems to me a culture of dishonesty, self-dealing, and unaccountability permeates the officer corps just like every other branch of the American elite.
Why the hell would some genius decide to operate AAV’s in hundreds of feet of water? Seems like asking for troublesome results. Got to assume these are designed for shallow coastal tidewater operations, not deep water maneuvers.
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