Interesting. AAV dunkers? I don't quite get it. From my understanding the vehicles are self righting and don't have the tendency to roll over like a helo does...is this actually useful or is it another case of checking off the safety boxes?
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If it saves lives, even one Marine/Corpsman on only one occasion it is useful.
ReplyDeleteActually many Marines have to be taught how to walk out of an AMTRAC that hasn't and isn't sinking but simply standing still and idling.
Heads, knees and elbows as well as weapons gear and ammo there just ain't a lot of wiggle room inside one.
My brother told of seeing how Iraqi's do a debark from a BMP since the Iraqi carried all their gear near the ramp when the ramp dropped the first thing to go out the door was that gear.
Then the Iraqi's would un-ass the vehicle.
Slow, slow enough that many a BMP would be burned out while the gear and the troops lay all about the ramp killed in one big clusterfuck.
Knock an AMTRAC over with a shell burst/IED/mine etc, in shallow water say a fathom deep and you will have to use this escape method.
I say it's a keeper just for fun and giggles for the Grunts.
first off, the TTP is to ride the track to the bottom in open water. It has a spot next to the engine that becomes a small 02 bubble, your ride to the bottom, and then once your pressurised (or ass soon as you see your pressurised you go threw the drivers hatch since the track is bottom heavy its the go to hatch in open water.
ReplyDeleteif your in the surf and your roll...well all bets are off. first off we dont have seat belt, if your roll your going to be taking some injures. hold on, ball up and just take the ride. second, if your in the surf the track is going to have a problem righting its self due to the sand, so you have two options, go for the back hatch or wait till the track gets pull out enough to right its self and then take the ride in.
the egress trainer...well being in it, it sucks. its every trackers nightmare to be inside the damn thing when its filling up with water.
oh and the guy in the video, is the creator of the AMTRACK rap..great guy, great little video. describes our life.
YAT-YAS
so i guess the training is worth it.
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