After nearly eighty years of continuous service, in March 2020 the Marine Corps announced it planned to retire its three remaining tank battalions in a bid to re-model the force for a great-power ...
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US Marine Corps to receive 30 additional amphibious combat vehicles
The new "ACV-130" amphibious armored vehicles are in a sense a substitute for the Marine Corps’ tank units, which are ...
The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit prepares to debark the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay in 1970s-era Assault Amphibious Vehicles.Photo: Flickr. Everything old is new again for the U.S.
The US Marine Corps is the tip of America’s spear—a fast-moving, flexible, forward operating force geared to take and hold territory quickly and efficiently. This flexibility is exemplified in the ...
U.S. Marines at a forward command post in the city of Huế, during the Battle of Huế, Vietnam War, February 1968. (Terry Fincher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the 1920s a small company ...
At the end of August, Marine tankers gathered at Camp Pendleton for this year's TIGERCOMP. Excluding a six-year lull in the 2000s, TIGERCOMP has been the Marine Corps tank gunnery competition since ...
Four companies will try to build the Marines a new amphibious tank -- hopefully for less than $15.5 billion. Everything old is new again for the U.S. Marine Corps. Four years ago, faced with pressure ...
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