Officer Faces Discharge Over Deadly Marine AAV Sinking

[rangerrebew]

Officer Faces Discharge Over Deadly Marine AAV Sinking
Mil & Intel   

By Hannah Ray Lambert | January 04, 2022

A Marine Corps panel will meet Tuesday, Jan. 4, to determine whether Lt. Col. Michael J. Regner should be discharged over the deadly sinking of an Assault Amphibious Vehicle, or AAV, off the coast of California in July 2020.

Sixteen service members attached to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit were returning to the USS Somerset after a training exercise near Camp Pendleton when their AAV sank on July 30, 2020, killing eight Marines and one Navy corpsman.

Regner was relieved of his command of Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, in October 2020.

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[rangerrebew]

The maintenance was probably deferred so the repair crews could spend more time studying CRT.

[ironhorsedriver]

It's getting to political. Now officers and noncoms will be afraid to make important decisions.