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The vehicles also missed their debut deployment with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which recently returned from seven months in the Indo-Pacific. The vehicles were quickly pulled from water training for a while in 2021 and then later restricted to only training in the base’s protected Del Mar harbor. There have also been reports of mechanical issues, including with the vehicle’s tow mechanism, delays in water steering and water intrusion in the engine and the transmission. Shortly after Camp Pendleton Marines started training with the replacement ACVs, four of the vehicles flipped in the surf zone – in one training event, two had accidents on the same day. Multiple Marine and Navy investigations deemed the accident “preventable” and outlined a confluence of causes, including a lack of following standard protocols, lapses in training and leadership and the poor conditions of the aging fleet of AAVs.

It was the worst of the Marines’ amphibious accidents in the service’s history. The vehicle developed by BAE Systems – the same manufacturer of the legacy AAV – was moved from initial testing into the fleet after a training accident on July 30, 2020, in which nine men, including three from Southern California, died when an AAV they rode in sank to the ocean floor off San Clemente Island. The vehicles were introduced at Camp Pendleton in 2019 so Marines could put them through their paces and then begin broader training with them before taking the new transports on deployment. The Amphibious Combat Vehicle is replacing the Amphibious Assault Vehicle the Marines have used for more than 50 years to transport troops between ships and the shore.

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