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So this USMC MEU Chart...
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Posted: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 07:35 AM UTC
...makes pretty good sense except for the part that confuses me. 17 LSVs and 13 ITVs. Now do those 30 vehicles mean the General Dynamics "Growler" M1161 or M1163?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growler_%28vehicle%29

So does that mean that of the 30 "Growlers," some seat two and others seat four and have a turret ring and a main machine gun-type weapon?

Or are the LSVs the Chenowth "Light Strike Vehicle?"

http://s18.photobucket.com/user/hotrodsquirrell/media/MrVintageMachine/alsv2.jpg.html

And the ITVs the Mercedes G-wagon ITV? Is that still in use today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim_Fast_Attack_Vehicle

I take it that this chart may be a bit dated because there's no mention of MRAPs or M-ATVs in the MEU-SOC inventory, or is that for Marine Expeditionary Brigade? Would the M1 "Breacher ABV" be included in MEU-SOC?

So basically most, if not all, of the MEU-SOC's equipments have been made as model kits except for the M1161 "Growlers" and M777A2? (CMK seems to make the 120mm EFSS...if that is the same one)

http://img1.afv-news.com/2012/09/mo-120-rt-61-120mm-mortar-cmk-ra051.jpg

So we're missing, and have been missing, the FAV/ITV/LSV models of of the MEU-SOC for years...how interesting!
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