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By ERIKA I. RITCHIE | The Orange County Register | Published: April 18, 2021 CAMP PENDLETON (Tribune News Service) — Marines at Camp Pendleton were back in the ocean this week training in amphibious assault vehicles for the first time since nine men died when one of the troop carriers sank on July 30 during a training exercise off of San Clemente Island. The Marine Corps fleet of the seafaring vehicles was suspended from all water training immediately following the deadly accident. Using t...

By ANDREW DYER, KRISTINA DAVIS | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: April 18, 2021 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Travis Horr was a sixth-grader in Maine when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. Ten years later, he was a 21-year-old Marine lance corporal in Afghanistan when the architect of the terrorist attack, Osama Bin Laden, was killed. The endgame seemed to be in sight. "Thats what we believed the whole mission was," recalls Horr. But the hunt for bin Laden and defeat of ...

Camp Pendleton Marines return to training with AAVs months after deadly accident Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Mindaugas Kulbis/AP U.S. Marine Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) take a part in a landing operation during a military Exercise Baltops 2018 at the Baltic Sea near village Nemirseta in Klaipeda district, some 340 kms (211 miles) west north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania. Lithuania, Monday, June 4, 2018. A major U.S.-led military exercise with 18,000 sol...

From 2005 to 2014, U-T photojournalist Nelvin C. Cepeda traveled regularly to Afghanistan embedded with Marines from Camp Pendleton. He looks back on what it was like seeing the war unfold abroad and at home. President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that all remaining U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, left Horr, now 32, buoyed by the possibility of finality — but with an unavoidable sense of déjà vu. “We’ve been here before,” said Horr, the director of govern...

Marines Put Assault Amphibious Vehicles Back in the Water for the First Time Since One Sank and Killed Nine Servicemembers Share This: U.S. Navy Photo The Marine Corps put an assault amphibious vehicle (AAV) back in the water this week for the first time since one sank last summer, killing nine service members, Marine Corps officials told Insider Thursday. Last July, an AAV assigned to Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, part of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, ...

Marine tanks back in water after deadly accident last year April 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5FILE - In this July, 2, 2003., file photo, a U.S. Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicle drives past a marked endangered species area as a black-necked Stilt, flies overhead at Red Beach on Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Calif. Marines are training in seafaring tanks for the first time since nine men died when when one of the troop carriers sank off the Southern California coast ...

Print It was October 2005 when I first flew into Kabul aboard a Pakistani International Airlines flight. Mud homes pocked the desert landscape. Afghanistan looked quiet and serene — almost safe. That sense of security crumbled away moments after landing. Fluorescent lights dangled from the airport ceiling, evidence of explosions past. In the city’s streets, we stopped every two miles to pass through an armed checkpoint. Then came the explosions. Within hours of checking into our hotel, we ...

Warrior mindset must remain, Corps says, even as Marines shift from infantry to the sea 2 hours ago A Marine with 8th Engineer Support Battalion clears a simulated enemy cache site during a simulated live-fire event during Command Post Exercise VI (CPX) on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 2. (Lance Cpl. Zachary Zephir/Marine Corps) The Corps will no longer field a force focused on capturing a contested area, but rather one designed to survive deep inside a contested zone while supportin...

Marines put assault amphibious vehicles back in the water for the first time since one sank and killed 9 service members rpickrell@businessinsider.com (Ryan Pickrell) © US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class RJ Stratchko Marines aboard an amphibious assault vehicle. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class RJ Stratchko The Marine Corps is putting AAVs back in the water for the first time since a deadly accident. Last summer, eight Marines and...

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