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A Marine Corps battalion commander has testified that in retrospect he would have halted the exercise that killed nine of his Marines whose amphibious assault vehicle sank off the Southern California coast in 2020

The Marine Corps on Friday halted waterborne operations for its new amphibious vehicle that resembles an armored seafaring tank after identifying a problem with its towing mechanism

Officials will only say that the investigation into the July incident is ongoing, according to NBC 7 military reporter Bridget Naso.

Marine officials said on Tuesday that the commander of the landing team whose amphibious vehicle sank during a training operation off the shore of San Clemente Island in July had been relieved “due to a loss in trust and confidence in his ability to command as a result of the assault amphibious vehicle mishap.”

The remains of seven Marines and a Sailor killed in a “training mishap” off the coast of Southern California arrived Wednesday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Each casket, draped in an American Flag, was loaded one-by-one into a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar by a pallbearer group made up of Marines...

The U.S. military confirmed it located and recovered the remains of the marines and sailor who died during a training incident off San Clemente Island.

The remains of seven Marines and a Sailor killed following a “training mishap” off the coast of Southern California were recovered on Friday, U.S. Marine Corps officials said. Crews with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), and the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) located the amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) on Monday, USMC officials at Camp...

The U.S. Marine Corps says they have located the Amphibious Assault Vehicle that sank off the coast of San Clemente Island.

U.S. Marine Corps officials have found the sunken amphibious assault vehicle involved in the deadly “training mishap” off the coast of Southern California last week – and the remains of eight service members killed in the accident.

The U.S. military has released the names of the personnel who is presumed dead after they went missing during a training exercise.

The family of one of the U.S. Marines presumed dead after a landing craft sank off the Southern California coast during a training exercise remembers him as a kind person. Cesar Villanueva, 21, is one of eight troops presumed dead after a “training mishap” with an amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) on Thursday. His mom remembers him as a kind, respectable...

NBC 7’s Bridget Naso spoke with a relative of one of the missing Marines.

NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has the latest details on the search and rescue of eight Marines and one sailor after a watercraft “mishap”

Helicopters and boats ranging from inflatables to a Navy destroyer are searching for eight people missing after their Marine landing craft went down off the Southern California coast

One Marine is dead and seven and a sailor are missing after a training “mishap.” NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has more.

Eight Camp Pendleton-based Marines are missing, one is dead and two are being treated at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla after an amphibious assault vehicle taking on water near San Clemente Island on Thursday afternoon, reports NBC 7’s Audra Stafford.