In 2017, 14 Marines and one Navy sailor were hospitalized after their vehicle hit a natural gas line, igniting a fire that engulfed the landing craft at Camp Pendleton.

SAN DIEGO (Associated Press) – The military has recovered the bodies of nine people killed when a Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the Southern California coast. A ...

The Marine Corps announced it is again pausing all water-based activities of its new Amphibious Combat Vehicle, or ACV. Marine Corps Grounds Its New Landing Craft After 2 Are Disabled in Big Waves ...

The barge had been sent to salvage a landing craft which sank on the Kuskokwim River carrying construction gear for Napakiak's high ... then brought in Homer-based Kachemak Marine to help salvage it.

Manufacturer: Textron Marine and Land Systems/Avondale Gulfport Marine. The Landing Craft Air Cushion, or LCAC, is used primarily by the U.S. Marine Corps to transport troops and equipment from ...

Landing-Craft News: Norris Joins Shipbuilder As New Marine Fabrication Vice President, ‘Greatest Generation’ Reflect On WWII Service At NUWC Newport, Beating Saturday, January 25, 2025 SUBSCRIBE ...

The one craft used exclusively by the Marine Corps is the large landing craft on an air cushion. It only takes a crew of five to operate but can carry between 60 and 75 tons of personnel and ...

The World War II landing craft (Higgins boat) as it looked years ago at the bottom of Lake Mead. At one point, it was 185 feet below the surface of the lake.

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SAN DIEGO — Helicopters and boats ranging from inflatables to a Navy destroyer were headed into a Saturday search for eight people missing after their Marine landing craft went down in hundreds ...