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YAT YAS Marines • Assault Amphibious Vehicles

U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, conduct operations in Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAV) on ...
Stars and Stripes

After more than 50 years, Marines sunset Assault Amphibious Vehicle

The burly, tracked vehicles that shuttled Marine grunts from ships to shore for more than five decades were retired from the service last week, making way for the Corps’ next-generation amphibious ...
Marine Corps Times

Marines retire ‘workhorse’ Assault Amphibious Vehicle after 50 years

After more than 50 years in service, the Marine Corps is sunsetting its Assault Amphibious Vehicle. (Lance Cpl. Brendan Mullin/Marine Corps) From the shores of Grenada to the deserts of Iraq, the ...
The National Interest

USMC Officially Retires Amphibious Assault Vehicle After Five Decades

The Marine Corps is pivoting back to the amphibious and fleet support roles that defined it during World War II. The US Marine Corps is moving on from the long-serving Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) ...
Task & Purpose

Marines say goodbye to ‘workhorse’ Assault Amphibious Vehicle

The Marine Corps formally decommissioned the last of its “workhorse” amphibious landing vehicles in a ceremony in California last Friday, bidding farewell to the machines that have carried Marines ...