Light Armored Vehicles at Camp Pendleton
7/30/08 - Our friend Captain Ronny, USMC, invited us out to Camp Pendleton today to check out his LAV training facility before he leaves the Marines this week. Josh, Brian and I had a great time crawling through the LAV's and playing in the simulator.
LAV-Training-0001 This is Captain Ronny |
LAV-Training-0043 This is a Light Armored Vehicle (LAV-25) at Camp Pendleton |
LAV-Training-0006 Josh and Brian climb on board. |
LAV-Training-0009 Here we are. |
LAV-Training-0015 M242 Bushmaster 25mm chain gun |
LAV-Training-0016 Mmmm, Josh likes the gun. |
LAV-Training-0017 Smoke grenade launchers |
LAV-Training-0018 Captain Ronny opens her up. |
LAV-Training-0019 Brian climbs in |
LAV-Training-0021 Cool guy in the gunner seat |
LAV-Training-0023 Brian climbs into the tiny space where the driver sits. |
LAV-Training-0025 Wow, tight fit. |
LAV-Training-0026 Back where the infantry sits. |
LAV-Training-0027 Brian checkin it |
LAV-Training-0028 These are the turret controls. Lots of them. |
LAV-Training-0031 Cool |
LAV-Training-0033 That's some serious armor |
LAV-Training-0035 Ronny fired up the LAV simulator for us. |
LAV-Training-0036 This is the control panel. Yes it looks like a video game. |
LAV-Training-0037 A very expensive video game. |
LAV-Training-0041 Cool guy strikes again. |