Light Armored Reconnaissance In Action • U.S. Marines LAR

[@xdawpax]

1st LAR 98-02. The blood sweat and beers I had there...good times!

[@vicchavez6570]

What unit were you in? I was a mos1345 and got my SF-46 in 2002.

[@michaelgilbert1800]

Nowhere quite like 29 Palms. Delta Company 3rd AAVBn 1982-1985. Love the place! Retired in 1995. There was no such thing as an LAV when I got there. There were RPVs, the grandaddy of UAVs. Still had M60 tanks.

[@vicchavez6570]

LAVs were put in rotation in 83' they're now LARs . Used by the Army and the Marines. I MEF are in Pendleton.

[@SD-fg8rb]

@0:31 saddest part of the video

[@tabcreedence6553]

looks like he lost his stripper clip guide :\

[@SD-fg8rb]

@@tabcreedence6553 looks like our young marines were never taught properly... this is too cringy

[@leemead8898]

Awesome video 💪🇺🇸 ! Thank you very much for your service and sacrifice ! Prayers for you and your family members ! Be safe ! 🇺🇸❤

[@ShimomuraTakezoWong]

After all those fun hours, at the end of the day; everyone gets to down some beers....🍺🍻

[@cainotheconcernedcitizen5196]

Nope... No alcohol while on deployment...

[@03FORCE21]

They aren’t on deployment in this video this is a CAX exercise at 29 Palms

[@ShimomuraTakezoWong]

@@cainotheconcernedcitizen5196 😀 hot day nice to have some beer 🍻

[@ShimomuraTakezoWong]

@@03FORCE21 hot day nice to have some 🍺🍻 after a hard earned training 😀😆

[@cainotheconcernedcitizen5196]

@@03FORCE21 should have known... Thanks for clarifying that... 👍

[@danmyers1080]

Damn the new modern warfare play-through going well

[@aiuua8337]

How original. Good fucking job.

[@robstark3464]

1st LAR jump platoon. Miss that shit

[@VincentAGaita]

Thanks for the memories. 1st LAR 99-03 weapons co. Mortars.

[@Welder6131]

Mnt plt 2nd lar 98-05, lots of good times training at cax and Bridgeport etc . Welded a lot of shit on these lavs.....thx for posting!

[@GreedeeVids]

Been out since t he 90's and the LAV-25 still has everything looking the same inside the VC / Gunner area lol. Wow that brought back memories.

[@NotoriousNFM]

That’s my brother at 4:31

[@Dtawomshadow]

I miss my boys

[@corporalhollywood5392]

Reminds me of that movie revenge of the nerds

[@TheFilthy5ifty]

Tell those boots to haze themselves.

[@GreedeeVids]

I seen my TOW's out there doing work!

[@checkmate610]

GET SOME!

[@Kuroteren]

Ahhh the old Blue Torpedoes. Moto-boner up!

[@lisawhite6485]

Awesome 🤙🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@gabelilyrose00]

Scouts out!! 0311 rah!!

[@AnmolSingh-er8pl]

I love❤🌹🌹🌹 ❤💕💖US🇺🇸 marine special force

[@crumply5959]

This isnt special operations though. Light armor recon is like the army's cav scout units and both are conventional but elite units.

[@corporalhollywood5392]

Only this time it’s for our Constitutional rights

[@vicchavez6570]

I MEF E3 MOS 0313 2001-2002 OEF RET.

[@MO-lc7vb]

Epic god bless!

[@JacobTheRedWolf]

TF are they shooting at? Are there any enemies in this video? Wtf?

[@Havelock45.0]

They're training

[@ratty2012]

Scouts though

[@vicchavez6570]

Teufelshunde

[@necromanteerrante8095]

Those Merines are reccon force?

[@victorgomez7738]

Not in a million years. 0313 are the pogs of the infantry.

[@lazysloth9060]

@@victorgomez7738 - POGs? How so? I did route recon and raids in IOF. You must be mistaking us with the AAV's.

[@maxstutler242]

Lazy Sloth didn’t call you a pog. He said the pogs of the infantry

[@lazysloth9060]

@@maxstutler242 - I'm was an LAV-25 gunner (0313 crewman). Nothing POG about it. If anything, I had to maintain my skills in both mounted and unmounted warfare in case our vehicles go down. We also needed to maintain SOC readiness when attached to special forces. GTFO with that POG talk. That just tells you how ignorant people are when they talk about other small 03 units they know nothing about.

[@LibertyMagnus]

0313 are smart grunts.

[@КумысМамбетов-й8ш]

Why are shoulders not protected ? How difficult is to add shoulder protection to their body armor ?

[@miscellaneous9506]

Hubby Cub With the amount the US spend on their military, I’m surprised they wouldn’t be able to incorporate it into their budget?

[@jmacbourne4483]

The shit we wear is heavy enough. Don't give our command any ideas!!!

[@JT-bg2vy]

During my time serving in the US Army, we had shoulder protection. You know what we didn't wear? The shoulder protection. Too cumbersome, limits mobility, adds to body heat, just a pain in the ass to have. Best thing to do is to never use it and keep it in plastic. That way it doesn't get kicked back from CIF when you ETS.

[@harambeexpress]

Armour is heavy, especially when you have a lot of other gear too. Any more armour than they currently have and they would move too slow and they would tire too quickly. Shoulders are not considered vital and so they are a low priority for protection. The armor plates are positioned only to protect the vital organs and it is the reason you see modern combat shooters face their target square on with their chest forward rather taking a side-on stance like you see in old pictures. There is no armor plating under the arms either so a round can go straight through piecing both lungs and probably the heart. The kevlar can stop shrapnel and low-power rounds, but for 5.56 and bigger a metal plate is still required to stop the round. The metal plates are most of the weight in the armor. The older MCBAS armor the Australian Army used included neck and groin protection, but it was never used because it was too heavy and limited mobility. I believe the Americans say "ounces make pounds and pounds make pain".

[@danconti5984]

Not like it will do much. You’re better off keeping the bare minimum safe so u can at least stay alive, a shoulder hit is not fatal usually so it’s not really an issue, at least for now. Also in a world of combat where mobility is everything having more pounds to carry can really affect performance.

[@gorkarullan]

They really think that Strikers are going to be level if one day they must fight someone? In Europe we use the LAVs because we are poor ... the LAV are very bad to do recognition work in mechanized units... big, slow, tall and very bad in open field ... what teh real point of this LAV? i never undestad why USA have this LAV... we want to have Marder and Pizzarros or BMP .. and USA has thousands of LAVs... And do you really think it's a good IFV? you are lucky to have the largest air force on the planet. USAF

[@rubenoliveira3260]

I dont now where you leave but i think you dont understand anithing and im from europe

[@gorkarullan]

Ruben Oliveira maybe are you that don t realy undestabd that LAV are just for a very light firefight. Only can fight again light troops and can not suport traket vheicles.... you are not Form germany or french or Italy.... you are probably the one that don y undestand the LVA concept

[@rubenoliveira3260]

@@gorkarullan but that its the proposite of the lav for supporting and protecting they have the bradley or the striker im from portugal and you

[@gorkarullan]

@@rubenoliveira3260 The issue is that the role played by the striker does not fit into any unit. LAVs were invented in WWII as lightweight reconnaissance units integrated in heavier units. Example divisions or "KampGruppe". At present, its use in an armed conflict is very limited (not by number, but by capabilities), they can only carry out missions against light infantry units, or missions against insurgents (against partisans, control of occupied territory, NEVER ON THE FRONT LINE ). Most Stryker Brigades are "deployed" in National Guard units. Not in frontline units The Striker brigade deployed in Europe was replaced by a mechanized unit after the "Occupation of Crimea". Why they are not considered units suitable for first-line combat According to Capt. Andrew Gregory (Modern War Inst. West Point) The Striker is not an IFV, it is an ICV (Infantry loading Vehicle) Why do Americans have 4,500 units of such a poor vehicle? and still have not developed a Substitute for M113 (has been in service since 1960)? That's why I think the Stryker is a joke for USArmy

[@rubenoliveira3260]

@@gorkarullan in that the last part you are right they can invest more in new projects like an sucessor tho the m113