Marines and Japanese soldiers train in beach assaults at Camp Pendleton
By Erika I. Ritchie | eritchie@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: February 12, 2020 at 6:49 p.m. | UPDATED: February 13, 2020 at 2:22 p.m.
Marines riding in Assault Amphibious Vehicles stormed beaches at Camp Pendleton and established strategic positions to engage the enemy in direct fire.
Using deep ravines and canyons to conceal their movements, machine gun squads set up with views of a village. From those vantage points, they fired M-14s while another company of Marines piled out of the armored, amphibious vehicles. Under the cover of machine gun fire, the company of Marines moved into the village and cleared the buildings that overlooked the beach canyons.
The Marines from Fox Company, 2nd Battalion/1st Marines established a defense position while another wave of AAVs — these manned by soldiers from the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade — came ashore at a beach just to the north.
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/12/marines-and-japanese-solders-train-in-beach-assaults-at-camp-pendleton/
