ALL MARINE RADIO HOUR: the Marine Corps AAV fleet hasn’t “been to war” since 2005-2006 — WHY ARE THE MAINTENANCE NUMBERS SO GOD AWFUL LOW?!

To my knowledge, and I’ve enquired around the Marine Corps through friends, the USMC’s AAVs left Iraq in late 2005 and 2006 after 14 Marines and one interpreter from 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment were killed in action in the vicinity of Haditha, Iraq in an AAV on August 1, 2005. Why is this fleet […]