New Delhi, September 26, 2022: With new interim guidance, the Marine Corps’ amphibious combat vehicles are set to return to waterborne operations on the open ocean after a two-month pause, officials announced Thursday.
The Corps paused all waterborne ACV operations in July following a high surf incident at Camp Pendleton, California, in which one vehicle rolled over and one was disabled. The Corps said that no Marines were injured in the incident.
The service quickly launched an internal review of the procedures surrounding the ACVs.
Following the incident, the Corps reauthorized ACV training on waters protected from the surf, like Pendleton’s Del Mar Boat Basin, but not out on the open ocean according to the reports published in marinecorpstimes.com.
But new interim guidance, which a news release from headquarters called “conservative,” allows ACVs to operate on the open ocean when the average height of the tallest waves is no more than 4 feet.
