There are about 800 AAV's in the Marin'e inventory that can carry up to 21 people and each weighs 26 tons
Business Insider: Marines who drowned when their AAV sank didn't have breathing devices because the Corps canceled the program to cut costs
* A Marine Corps assault amphibious vehicle sank last summer, and nine people drowned.
* Troops didn't have breathing devices because the Corps cut the program years ago to save money.
* In the wake of the accident, the Corps has changed its mind and is bringing these devices back.
When a Marine Corps assault amphibious vehicle sank off the coast of California last summer, nine people drowned.
Among the many problems the Corps is trying to rectify in the wake of this accident, troops inside did not have breathing devices.
The embarked service members were not carrying the devices because the Corps made the decision to get rid of them several years ago after assessing that program's $15.9 million cost outweighed concerns about a possible catastrophe, two Corps officials told Insider.
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WNU Editor: A lot of things went wrong on this exercise. Including not having the proper breathing equipment. And people are being fired for it .... US Marine Corps fires another commander over the assault amphibious vehicle accident that killed 9 troops (Business Insider).
More News On How Eight US Marines And A Sailor Drowned In An Amphibious Vehicle Training Accident Last Year
The Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicle that sank and killed 9 should never have left the ramp, slides into investigation show -- Marine Times
Deadly sinking of Marine tank off San Clemente Island was caused by human errors, mechanical woes -- AP
Families of Marines and sailor who died in AAV training accident are learning more about what happened -- OC Register
RIP
ReplyDeleteAlways bad to lose people, freaking training accidents
Think every year the US loses like around 5-10 in such accidents. It's to be expected,I guess, but this particular instance was double bad as they would not only have lived (most likely)if they had the gear, but they could also have practiced a real top over
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But also shows you how bad the monetary situation is while China just made a cool couple trillion thanks to the Wuhan bump
"The WEC bottled breathing device program was canceled in 2015, just four years after it began, as the Corps grappled with budget concerns."
ReplyDeleteCan you say sequestration?
Obama killed those marines and sailor.
In his 3rd term Obama wants to murder more soldiers and sailors.
ReplyDelete"2015, if you recall where we were fiscally in 2015, we're in sequestration." - Marine
We had sequestration, because no judge will allow non-discretionary budget to be cut. You cannot cut welfare, which makes up over half the budget. So really you cannot solve the deficit or the debt by only cutting "discretionary" spending.
ReplyDeleteBiden Spends 4 Times More to House Illegal Aliens Than on Troops
ReplyDeleteAmerica’s soldiers sleep in the cold while the Democrat invaders sleep in hotels.
All those new Democrats need lot and lots of welfare.
More budget cuts to the Defense Department incoming.
If you swapped the leader ship of Beijing and Washington, you would get the following. You would get the Democrats taxing Chinese workers to death and deciding the hell with them and importing people from Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and India. Meanwhile Xi would ban guns, crack down on the press, shoot drug dealers, build the wall, make sure there were jobs and build up the military.
Well it makes sense to treat illegal immigrants better. They'll be the next voters for 30 years.
ReplyDeleteThose national guards soldiers can go fck themselves, if it's up to the Democrats. They'll be bred out in a couple decades. Likely getting cancer too... ahhh it's great to be a Democrat.. all the sinning, all the virtue signaling and getting away with all the crime. Bliss. And the media then goes to protect you.
Cuomo... killed a few thousand.. perhaps 13,000.. but come on, his brother on CNN just loves him. Let it go.
Biden.. total corrupt pedo swine that sold your country out for decades. Don't worry about the millions he amassed on a public servants salary. I'm sure the big guy has a good answer for everything.
WAKE THE FCK UP
YOUR COUNTRY DIES
You don't reign in these corrupt, filthy war mongers