Posts Tagged ‘assault-craft’
Upgrades to keep craft in use for another decade
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A half-dozen sailors hover around their air-cushioned landing craft, readying to launch it from the nearby beach on their next mission. At a far end of Assault Craft Unit 5’s oceanfront compound, hard-hatted metalworkers and other civilian contractors work around LCAC 30, propped up in the large white shelter [...]
Bataan heads for Haiti
ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP BATAAN — For most of the Bataan’s sailors, January was supposed to be a quiet month, preparing for a four-month shipyard availability.“We just returned from a seven-month deployment to 5th and 6th Fleets on Dec. 8, and here we are underway again,” Chief Mass Communications Specialist [...]
Storming the Beaches: US Navy’s ACU-1 Craft Get Engine Overhaul
Invasion of Inchon during the Korean War (click to view larger) Pushed to the edge of the Korean penisula by a massive and sustained invasion by the North Korean army, South Korean, US, and UN troops dug in at a perimeter around the city of Pusan. It was the the summer of 1950 and things looked desparate for the allied forces. Then, US General [...]
