[chief lee runamok]

The aav sinking in 345 feet of water, it makes no sense to me that the support vessel was three miles out.

[Retain Mike]

Me neither. Reminds me of my first post which said, "I’ll start off by wondering how many things have to go wrong before the CO and EXO on the USS Somerset decide they need to launch boats or steam towards the AAV’s?"

Like you don't need a manual to tell you these folks could probably have a problem. On our LST we made sure the boats or LVT's and the destination all shared the same radio frequency. They were never alone.