That brings us back to the amphibious vehicle Secretary Gates wants to cancel.
He was fond of drunkenly speeding around his property in various automobiles--including an amphibious vehicle that looked like a normal convertible.
Such a huge death toll from this one bomb attack on this amphibious vehicle, if the Pentagon's looking at that, does this raise machinery questions?
The new Commandant, General James Amos, took command in late October, just in time to participate in the budget discussions that killed the amphibious vehicle.
On January 6, Gates disclosed a series of proposed budget cuts that included termination of an amphibious vehicle the Marines have been developing for 15 years.
As chance would have it, the same week the costly new vehicle concept was revealed, the Navy Department was moving to cancel a Marine amphibious vehicle that cost a similar amount, mainly because the price-tag was too high.
Which is why the Amphibious Combat Vehicle is a top priority for the Marine Corps.
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An amphibious tourist vehicle sank in the Albert Dock, Liverpool, while on a tour of the city.
What the Marines needed was a successor to their Amphibious Assault Vehicle, or AAV, that debuted in 1972.
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In this case, yes, they're using this amphibious assault vehicle merely to transport a large number of troops from one post to another.
The United States Department of Defense wants members of the public to unleash their inner Tony Stark and help design a new amphibious infantry vehicle.
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The good news for the program is that it has surmounted earlier reliability problems and now looks to be by far the best amphibious warfighting vehicle ever built.
But we're just describing to you what I'm looking at -- the charred AAV, an amphibious assault vehicle, is basically one of those armored personnel carriers the Marines are using.
The Marines were traveling in an amphibious assault vehicle.
It started out making amphibious landing vehicles for the Army and Marines 11, 000 before the war ended which eventually evolved into the Amphibious Assault Vehicle still used by the Marines today.
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Its future means of performing amphibious assaults (the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle), its principal airborne assault vehicle (the V-22 Osprey) and the backbone of its dedicated ground-support aviation for decades to come (the F-35) would all be eliminated or rendered unaffordable.
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And they are developing an armored fighting vehicle that is so much better than existing amphibious vehicles it turns the sea from an obstacle into a maneuver space.
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