Walker is currently being held on the USS Peleliu, an amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Sea.
What the Marines needed was a successor to their Amphibious Assault Vehicle, or AAV, that debuted in 1972.
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And we are shifting in the Marine Corps from an amphibious assault unit, if you will, to a long-term combatant unit.
In October the USS Makin Island, an amphibious assault ship, was the first of 12 hybrid-powered ships to take to the water.
We rode into war crammed in the back of amphibious assault vehicles.
In this case, yes, they're using this amphibious assault vehicle merely to transport a large number of troops from one post to another.
The Essex is an amphibious assault ship with 23 helicopters aboard, including 19 capable of lifting cargo from ship to shore, as well as about 1, 500 Marines.
But we're just describing to you what I'm looking at -- the charred AAV, an amphibious assault vehicle, is basically one of those armored personnel carriers the Marines are using.
It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.
He arrived in New Orleans on Sunday and spent the night aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, which is docked along the riverfront and serves as a command center.
The Marine Corps is being forced to consider further personnel cuts in part because of the expense of modernizing equipment, in particular its aging amphibious assault vehicles and its fighter jets.
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The Marines were traveling in an amphibious assault vehicle.
Testing 94 systems distributed across nine ships during an amphibious assault was an important part of the validation test -- and the first time an entire MEU has participated in such a test, Malagon said.
The importance assigned to the amphibious assault mission by policymakers has enabled the Marine Corps, traditionally the smallest of the military services managed by the Pentagon, to grow bigger than the British Army and achieve equality in joint deliberations.
The Qingdao review did include an interesting addition to China's fleet, a Yuzhao-class amphibious-assault ship, which could be used to dispatch troops and helicopters over long distances.
The commandos might take part in an amphibious or aerial assault on southern Iraq or in urban fighting.
Its future means of performing amphibious assaults (the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle), its principal airborne assault vehicle (the V-22 Osprey) and the backbone of its dedicated ground-support aviation for decades to come (the F-35) would all be eliminated or rendered unaffordable.
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