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USNI News Search for: Home » Budget Industry » Marine Corps IG Removed, ‘Counseled’ for Failures as 1st MARDIV CO Following Fatal AAV Sinking Investigation Marine Corps IG Removed, ‘Counseled’ for Failures as 1st MARDIV CO Following Fatal AAV Sinking Investigation Maj. Gen. Robert Castellvi The Marine Corps inspector general – who last month was suspended from the role as the service’s watchdog – won’t be returning to the job after Gen. David Berger last week formally “counseled” him for his “failure” to properly train and evaluate a platoon whose amphibious assault vehicle sank during a training exercise off southern California last summer. ....
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Marine Corps’ safety culture ‘has got to improve’ 2 hours ago Marines with the 1st Marine Regiment prepare to move toward a notional military objective on Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 31, 2018. (Cpl. Danny Gonzalez/Marine Corps) A Marine Corps culture that lawmakers called one of mission over safety came under attack during a recent House Armed Services Committee readiness subcommittee hearing looking into failures that led to July 30, 2020, sinking of an amphibious assault vehicle and resulted in the deaths of nine service members. Though the families were briefed on the roughly 2,000-page investigation, nine months of silence and some of the findings left many families still asking questions. Two parents of killed service members testified. ....
On July 30, 2020, During an at-sea pre-deployment training exercise of the 15th Marines Expeditionary Unit, eight infantry Marines and one Navy corpsman drowned as the 26-ton amphibious assault vehicle transporting them to amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset sank. In the ensuing Marine Corps investigation, Col. Christopher J. Bronzi, commander of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, was relieved of duty in March 2021 due to a loss of faith and confidence in his ability to command, a Marine Corps statement said. The investigation also faulted Castellvi, commander of the 1st Marine Division, and noted that the platoon aboard the AAV had not completed its mandatory Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation, or MCCRE, prior to the accident. ....