Marine Corps Codifies Amphibious Combat Vehicle Standards After Rocky Start, New Deployments The new standards outline the use of safety boats to accompany the Amphibious Combat Vehicle during waterborne operations.
Marines' New Amphibious Combat Vehicle Makes Operational Debut in Annual Philippines Exercise The deployment of the vehicle occurred during Exercise Balikatan '24, which involved U.S. training with the Philippine...
After Early Troubles, New Marine Corps Amphibious Vehicle Is Headed to Okinawa The ACV replaced the aging and troubled amphibious assault vehicle after decades of use and a 2020 mishap that killed eight...
Marine Corps Identifies Sergeant Killed in California Amphibious Vehicle Rollover Sgt. Matthew K. Bylski, a native of Royal Oak, Michigan, was killed when his amphibious combat vehicle, or ACV, rolled over...
1 Marine Dead, 14 Injured After Amphibious Combat Vehicle Rollover During Training at Camp Pendleton The Marines were in an amphibious combat vehicle, or ACV, that rolled over during ground movement in a training exercise, the...
After a Spate of Rollovers, Marine Corps Graduates Retrained Amphib Vehicle Drivers Officers in charge of the program told reporters that so far they have retrained 59 Marines to safely operate the new...
With Amphibious Craft Barred from the Surf, One Marine Unit Turns to Small Boats As the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit gets ready to deploy, it is heading to foreign shores without a key piece of equipment...
The Marines' Amphibious Craft Isn't Allowed in the Surf. The Corps Hopes New Training Will Fix That. The Marine Corps has announced that it is changing the way it trains the operators of its new Amphibious Combat Vehicles...
Navy Captain Censured Over Deadly Vehicle Sinking Approved for Another Command The Navy is giving a captain previously censured over the fatal sinking of an amphibious assault vehicle, or AAV, another...
Marine Amphibious Craft Go Back into Protected Waters as Questions over Safety Loom The Marine Corps lifted a freeze on water-based training for its new landing craft a week after two of its vehicles became...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
'It's a Lottery': Why Foreign Volunteer Fought in Russia-Ukraine War Jack de Santis is a Croatian-born volunteer of the Ukrainian army who used his engineering, drone expertise to help fight...
Army Vet Sentenced to Year In Prison For $80,000 Fraud, Stolen Valor Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, was indicted in April 2024 on four charges: wire fraud, stolen valor, theft of government funds, and...
Bravo Company Vietnam Veterans Honored with Long-Overdue Bronze Stars While it took more than five decades, 14 veterans of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, were...
