Marines from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines and 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion had to abandon their vehicles in the waves
The Marine unit operating in high surf off Camp Pendleton when two of its amphibious troop carriers floundered in the waves last week is the same unit that lost nine service members two years ago when another amphibious troop carrier sank off the coast of San Diego, the Marines said Monday.
No one was injured in the incident, the Marines said. The next day, the Marines announced it was suspending waterborne ACV operations while it investigated what happened. The incident came almost two years after eight Marines and a sailor from 1/4’s Bravo Company were killed when their amphibious troop carrier — a Vietnam War-era Assault Amphibious Vehicle — broke down and sank near San Clemente Island. The AAV was returning to the amphibious transport dock Somerset when it began taking on water and stalled. Another AAV came to rescue those on board and bumped it into a breaking wave, sending water over its top and into the open escape hatch.
Investigations into the 2020 AAV sinking didn’t cite sea state as a causal factor in the wreck, but the driver of that AAV testified at a Camp Pendleton inquiry in December that waves were breaking over the top of the vehicle and he had trouble seeing.
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