A Navy selection board is recommending a ship captain censured over his failure to control amphibious vehicle operations in a deadly incident off the San Diego coast two years ago be given command of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Capt. John Kurtz, as the commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock Somerset when nine died in amphibious vehicle sinking, was censured in June for failing to properly supervise operations
The Marine Corps ordered a stop to waterborne operations in the surf zone for its fleet of Amphibious Combat Vehicles after an ACV overturned in the waters along Camp Pendleton, Calif., the service announced Friday evening. Under the halt, no ACV is permitted to launch from or land on an ocean beach. An ACV assigned […]