Parents of Marines killed in military training exercise speak on year anniversary of accident
On Thursday, family members of the eight marines and one sailor that died on the AVV will be bringing questions to BAE Systems, the manufacturers of the vessel. Author: Regina Ahn Updated: 9:37 AM PDT July 29, 2021
SAN DIEGO Carlos and Evelyn Baltierra have been going through their last memories they had with their son Bryan. He was one of the nine service members that died one year ago in a training exercise in San Clemente Island when an Amphibious Assault Vehicle or AAV sank 400 feet. They were done for the day, Bryan was so excited to go to all these countries, said Evelyn Baltierra.
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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.”