#amphibious assault vehicle

Yay, play date! Err. Training, boys!

Marines with 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion travel across Camp Pendleton’s Red Beach in their 26-ton amphibious assault vehicles after making an amphibious landing during the first day of Exercise Steel Knight. Steel Knight is an annual exercise designed to train and prepare the 1st Marine Division for deployment as the ground combat element of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The focus of the exercise is to ensure that 1st Marine Division is fully prepared to deploy as an expeditionary force across the full spectrum of military operations and is capable of responding to any crisis around the world.

(Photo by Sergeant Michael Cifuentes, 10 DEC 2012.)