Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Kyle Carlstrom | Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet | 04.17.2025
B-Roll of Assault Craft Unit One (ACU-1) landing craft utility, command building, and personnel including musicians from the Navy Southwest Region band, in prepartion for the change of command of ACU-1 onboard Naval Amphibious Base Coronado April 17, 2025....
Video by Ronald Newsome and Jeremy Roman | Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division | 02.14.2025
Doug Brown is a key figure in the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicle mission at NSWC Panama City Division. As the LCAC Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical (HM&E) project manager and mechanical engineer within the command’s Expeditionary Systems Division (E30), he supports the craft’s vital role in transporting personnel and equipment from ship to shore. He was recently selected to serve......
Video by Chief Petty Officer Darren Moore | USS WASP (LHD 1) | 07.16.2024
240716-N-ME988-1001 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (July 16, 2024) A landing craft, air cushion assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 approaches the welldeck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), July 13, 2024, in the Mediterranean Sea. Wasp is conducting operations in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations as the flagship of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (WSP ARG)-24th Marine......
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Vazquez | AFN Sasebo | 05.09.2024
Naval Beach Unit SEVEN (NBU-7) held a change of command ceremony on May 10, 2024, at Yokose Naval Base to bid farewell to CDR Jessica Betz and welcome CDR Fred Crayton. NBU-7 functions as a Forward Deployed Naval Force (FDNF) command responsible for executing the manning, organizing, training, maintaining, and equipping of all Naval Beach Group ONE assets deployed or forward assigned in......
Video by John Green, Ronald Newsome and Anthony Powers | Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division | 06.28.2023
Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 107 arrived at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD), June 28. LCAC 107 is one of the Next Generation LCAC's that will be added to the Fleet in the near future. LCAC 107's delivery follows the completion of Acceptance Trials with the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey to test the readiness and capability of the craft and to validate......
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Bradley Rickard | USS Bataan (LHD 5) | 04.15.2023
230415-N-OM737-1001 ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 15, 2023) A landing craft air cushion assigned to Assault Craft Unit 2 enters the well deck of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) during well deck operations. Bataan is the flagship for Commander, Amphibious Squadron EIGHT (PHIBRON) 8 and is currently underway for the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and 26th Marine Expeditionary......
Video by Lance Cpl. Gabriel Antwiler | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South | 09.29.2021
U.S. Marine Corps light armored vehicles with Special Marine Air-Ground Task Force – UNITAS, get loaded onto a landing craft, air cushion on Miramar beach during UNITAS LXII in Ancon, Peru, Sept. 29, 2021. UNITAS is the world's longest-running maritime exercise. Hosted this year by Peru, it brings together multinational forces from twenty countries and includes 29 ships, four submarines, and......
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom | Amphibious Squadron 5 | 10.20.2019
191020-N-NB544-1589 U.S. 7TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Oct. 20, 2019) Landing Craft, Air Cushion 58, attached to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, loads U.S. Marines, assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, and returns to the amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) during exercise KAMANDAG 3. John P. Murtha is participating in KAMANDAG 3, a Philippine-led, bilateral......
