 The mission of the AAV community is to land the surface assault elements of the landing force and their equipment in a single lift from assault shipping during amphibious operations to inland objectives. We give the Marine Corps its amphibious identity. We are the only organic surface connector that the Marine Corps owns that provides amphibious lift from naval L-class shipping to the beach and to further inland objectives. Proficiency in this training makes the battalion more lethal because we have honed those attributed skills and we now have brilliance in the basics and we are good at conducting those basic blocking and tackling skills at the individual level which will then build on our crew level and section level and ultimately platoon level T&R standards when we go to work with the infantry.