
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Yards away from a faded green landing vehicle-tracked (LVT) that participated in the island hopping campaign against Japan, Marines are beginning tests on two vehicles competing for that World War II machines’ amphibious role in the next war.Camp Pendleton is home to the Marine Corp’s Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch (AVTB), which developed the LVT in the 1940’s, their follow-on LVT2 and its variants used in Vietnam and the current assault amphibious vehicles (AAVs). It now is…