A new Marine training course aims to break old habits

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A new Marine training course aims to break old habits
The Operational Certification course was established after two surf-zone rollovers in the Amphibious Combat Vehicle.
CAITLIN M. KENNEY | JULY 31, 2023 06:17 PM ET
MARINE CORPS
   
Old habits die hard. So after two rollovers caused by Marines driving the new Amphibious Combat Vehicle like the old Amphibious Assault Vehicle, the Corps created a new training unit to break outdated habits and teach better, safer ones.

“I believe it's that 50 years of experience that we had with the legacy assault amphibian vehicle that created a certain degree of muscle memory that led us to focus more heavily on the similarities between the legacy vehicle and the ACV, than focus on the differences,” Col. Howard Hall, who stood up the Transition Training Unit in February, told reporters on July 28. “So it's the differences where the TTU had really taken those initial steps and wanted to focus on the differences instead of the similarities on behalf of the institution.”

The TTU developed the Operational Certification course this spring to address some of the shortfalls in how they initially trained for and operated the new ACVs.

 https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/07/new-marine-training-course-aims-break-old-habits/389002/

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The Marines also realized that the newest operators and maintainers were the “most proficient” on the ACV, but when they went to their units, they “faced up against a larger majority of those who, you know, kind of held on to the legacy practices for maintenance, for operations, and safe execution,” said Hall.