Camp Pendleton Marines return to training with AAVs months after deadly accident
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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 soldiers from 19 primarily NATO countries has kicked off in the alliance s eastern flank involving Poland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
By ERIKA I. RITCHIE | The Orange County Register | Published: March 10, 2021 (Tribune News Service) Marine Cpl. Jordan Perez was recently recognized for swimming out in choppy water to rescue a couple whose kayak tipped over in the Del Mar Basin, a marina leading to the ocean at Camp Pendleton. But for the 20-year-old from Antioch, the effort was just something that Marines are expected to do. I d want someone to do the same thing for my parents, Perez said this week. It s something a good person would do. That s what my mom always taught me was to be a good person. I didn t expect all this attention.