Marine Corps: New Training Unit Will Improve Marines’ Transitioning from AAV to ACV Operations -...

Revamped instruction at a schoolhouse at Camp Pendleton, Calif., will help the Marine Corps better train Marines to operate the new Amphibious Combat Vehicle and prevent more rollover incidents, the service announced Wednesday.

In the wake of several training incidents and delays to the first ACV deployment, the Marine Corps has established a Transition Training Unit at Assault Amphibian School, the schoolhouse where all Amphibious Assault Vehicle and ACV officers, enlisted operators and vehicle repair technicians learn how to operate and maintain the vehicles that can travel at sea and ashore. The ACV is the wheeled vehicle replacing the tracked AAVs that have been a staple of amphibious operations for decades.

A cadre of hand-selected experienced ACV operations and maintenance personnel assigned to the TTU, as it’s known, are “developing a rigorous and standardized program to ensure that Amphibious Combat Vehicle Marines possess the technical knowledge, skills, and proficiency required to safely operate, maintain, supervise and employ the ACV,” the service said in a news release.