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Marine Corps rolls out ‘mishap library’ in wake of deadly accidents 3 days ago Amphibious assault vehicles launch from the beach, transporting a unit of Marines to the amphibious assault ship Peleliu (LHA 5), while underway for Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2014. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dustin Knight/Navy) The Marine Corps is launching a new online portal, making it easier for future Marines to learn the lessons of past mishaps. The portal is already up on MarineNet and eventually will link past mishaps to “relevant” training and readiness standards, said Maj. Raymond Webb, an aviation safety officer in the Marine Corps commandant’s safety division.
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Marines Retooling Infantry Training for Complex Warfare in Pacific
May 6, 2021 2:51 PM
U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – West, take simulated artillery fire during the last event of a five-day capstone exercise for the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., on April 30, 2021. US Marine Corps
CAMP PENDLETON, CALIF. After 20 years of counterinsurgency and low-end conflict in the Middle East, the Marines are rapidly retooling for a different kind of fight.
As the service has shed legacy equipment like tanks and heavy artillery to reshape itself into a mobile, Pacific island-hopping force, it’s retooling how it trains the Marines of the future to fit into a more complex way of war while reinforcing its creed of “every Marine a rifleman.”
Families of fallen service members address Congress on preventable AAV accident
Deadly Marines training accident
Replay Video UP NEXT Ahead of a fatal training accident, Marine Pfc. Jack Ryan Ostrovsky shared his reservations about the safety of assault amphibious vehicles, or AAVs, according to his father, Peter Ostrovsky. A week before the AAV incident, Jack Ryan told me about his concerns with the AAVs, and that they sink all the time. It was hard for me to believe that statement, but now I know there was more to the story that was the basis for his concern, Ostrovsky told lawmakers on Capitol Hill Monday.