U.S. Marines with Charlie Company, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division, execute Amphibious Combat Vehicle ...

Marines at Camp Pendleton held a ceremony to decommission the service's last active duty AAVs. The sea/land assault vehicle entered service in 1972. The Marine Corps formally decommissioned the last ...

From the shores of Grenada to the deserts of Iraq, the Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) shielded and carried Marines from ship to sea to shore for over 50 years. Now, after a Sept. 26 ceremony, the ...