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.

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This is Captain Ronny
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This is a Light Armored Vehicle (LAV-25) at Camp Pendleton
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Josh and Brian climb on board.
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Here we are.
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M242 Bushmaster 25mm chain gun
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Mmmm, Josh likes the gun.
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Smoke grenade launchers
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Captain Ronny opens her up.
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Brian climbs in
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Cool guy in the gunner seat
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Brian climbs into the tiny space where the driver sits.
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Wow, tight fit.
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Back where the infantry sits.
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Brian checkin it
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These are the turret controls. Lots of them.
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Cool
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That's some serious armor
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Ronny fired up the LAV simulator for us.
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This is the control panel. Yes it looks like a video game.
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A very expensive video game.
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Cool guy strikes again.