Posted on 06/14/2022 11:28:40 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
So sad. Career ending letters of censure for life ending decisions.
Sounds kind of unseaworthy.
I assume you use them to storm beaches...like Iwo Jima.
I live and fish over the ocean. They sent those machines and people out into 25+ knots of wind and big swells. Sent them to their deaths. RIP soldiers.
I’m guessing from the term, “Tank,” being used that it wasn’t an LCU.
LCUs and LCACs are a pain to park in the welldeck.
They weren’t soldiers.
L
Is this what the military is coming to? A lack of training for personnel, poor vehicle maintenance and poor planning by personnel with stars on their shoulders.
What the hell is wrong with my Navy? In 11 years being Navy (75-86), I never heard of such incidents, other than small fires that were quickly extinguished by damage control or known as the Flying Squad. Sheesh.
Officers get a “censure letter”
Enlisted get sent to jail.
Maybe we reached that point Kerry talked about that if you aren’t smart you join the military.
I can definitely see the military, in its current state is no longer suitable for patriots, so they have to take what they can get.
I assume this vehicle was an LCM (landing craft marine). They look pretty much like a combat tank, but without the big gun turret.
I think they have 2 large Rolls Royce engines, 1 for propulsion and 1 mainly as a water pump. My amphib ship could carry 6 or 8 of these things. We launched several in Okinawa as demo/training back in 1968 or 69, and one sank in fairly shallow water just off the beach. No lives were lost and we did salvage the vehicle. Word was that the pump engine stalled and it sank like a stone.
you live on the ocean? Houseboat? or other?
I am thinking of buying a large catamaran and living on it.
“We launched several in Okinawa as demo/training back in 1968 or 69”
My Dad did some amphibious landing training on Okinawa in 1945. What a coincidence. :)
“Officers get a “censure letter”
Enlisted get sent to jail.”
So very True.
Remember when a US Submarine sank a Japanese fishing boat killing all on board and damaging the sub? The commander was forced to retire.
Remember when an enlisted sailor snapped a picture inside a boat and went to jail, and was pardoned by Pres. Trump.
So did you hear about the report on the bottom-beaching of the sub USS Connecticut. Part of the problem had something to do with “humanitarian evacuations” and some of the trouble was related to a bedbug infestation? Before your time I used to build this stuff and helped write some of those rules. The stupid stuff happening lately is eye-bulging.
I think the article was referring to the AAV-7/LVTP-7. It didn’t explicitly name the vehicle but my recollection was that one of those foundered off the west coast last year. The LCM that I recall was essentially a big “Higgins Boat” for vehicles.
The craft sank over a period of almost 45 minutes; any failures in this particular case were at the small-unit (NCO) level. (There were Marines in the troop compartment FAR past the point where it was safe to remain there,)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.