From: Dave Ball (vought@msn.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 23:14:43 PDT
Thanks to the LCAC. This site has a great picture of two HMMWV's and four
LAV's going to the beach dry.
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-lcac.html
I do believe there is quite a few swimming vehicles in the inventory though.
Dave
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From: "Kris Kirby" <kris@catonic.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Gore truck
> On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Ryan Gill wrote:
> > Isn't it odd how the Amphibious cargo vehicle thing was something of
> > a phase after WWII? The British had the Stalward, the US had its
> > Gamma Goat and the Goer. Now, we're back to basic trucks that don't
> > swim.
>
> We've pretty well figured out that an amphibious land war is not where we
> want to be.
>
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