Apartado, Colombia —
U.S. Marines with Littoral Craft Firm Charlie, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion, 4th Marine Division, graduated from the Colombian Fluvial Operations Course, at Centro Internacional Excelencia Avanzado Fluvial (CIEF), Aug. 2, 2024.
Littoral Craft Firm Charlie is the primary group of U.S. service members to take part within the Colombian Fluvial Operations Course as 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion is steadily making the change from Amphibious Assault Autos (AAV) to Littoral Craft, that are maneuverable small boats.
“As we enter the infancy of littoral craft coaching, we’re looking for data and coaching from any and all sources,” stated U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Lance Sutton, the Inspector-Teacher with LCC Charlie.
The Colombian Marine Corps is very thought to be world class specialists in facilitating and executing littoral workouts as a result of their geography and safety challenges closely emphasize maneuverability and fast response on the nation’s waterways.
“They’re the very best on this planet at riverine operations and it’s an ideal match for our coaching,” stated Sutton.
The Fluvial Operations Course consists of a number of coaching workouts resembling swim qualification, classroom lectures, weapons dealing with and upkeep, and littoral craft maneuvers.
“We got here right here and educated with the Colombian Marines on gunnery and piloting littoral crafts,” stated Sutton. “We discovered quite a bit from them. We hope to take this data again to the USA and implement them into our techniques, methods and procedures (TTPs) and our customary working procedures (SOPs).”
“They’re the very best on this planet at riverine operations and it’s an ideal match for our coaching”.
– Maj. Lance Sutton, Firm C, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion
For the Marines of LCC Charlie, the Fluvial Operations Course was a three-week course. The primary week comprised classroom coaching and familiarization with the completely different courses of Colombian littoral crafts, the second week comprised remoted coaching between the gunnery and pilot teams, and the ultimate week comprised integration of all coursework. The Marines of LCC Charlie endured and graduated from the course and are actually extra educated and assured of their skills to take care of, function, and execute missions with littoral crafts.
Offering expert-level instruction in riverine warfighting was one thing the Colombian Marines had been completely satisfied to do.
“For years, the Marines of Colombia have acquired coaching from the USA Marine Corps,” stated Main Normal Jorge Federico Torres Mora – Commandant of the Colombian Marine Corps, “and I’m happy that we are actually capable of present them with this coaching, demonstrating reciprocity and strengthening our relationships as pleasant international locations.”
Teniente Coronel de IM (Colombian Marine Corps Lt. Col.) Juan Pablo Lozano Borrero, Head of the Division of Instruction, Coaching and Doctrine for the Colombian Marine Corps, stated of the coaching: “It fills us with delight and satisfaction to see the Marines of Colombia and United States coaching collectively, complementing one another, as in the event that they had been the identical drive. Which means we’re getting nearer and rising interoperability between the 2 Marine Corps.”
The 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion is steadily and effectively working in accordance with Pressure Design 2030. With the phasing out of AAVs, Marines of LCC Charlie intention to modernize, compartmentalize and turn out to be a extra maneuverable and deadly preventing drive to be able to meet the calls for of a quickly evolving future working setting.
By Cpl Trystan Taft | Marine Corps Forces South
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