Marines Put AAVs Back in Water for First Time Since Deadly Accident

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 a Navy sailor drowned when an AAV sank off of California.
Water operations were halted as the Corps looked into the failures that caused the accident.
The Marine Corps put an assault amphibious vehicle 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, sank off the coast of California as it returned to the amphibious transport dock USS Somerset from San Clemente Island.

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