Marines Schedule Industry Day For Combat Vehicle Trainer Program

By Thomas Duffy / November 17, 1999 at 5:00 AM
The Marine Corps will host an industry day Dec. 3 to discuss the combat vehicle appended trainer program, a precision gunnery system that will train tank and light armored vehicle crews. The service expects to award a single contract early next year. The high fidelity trainers will be attached to Abrams tanks and light armored vehicles and "will emphasize individual, collective, joint training objectives, and cross training in gunnery, mission tactics and crew communication and coordination," according to a Marine...

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