Why suspending AAV water operations reflected a replacement failure

How serious was the decision to stop training with amphibious assault vehicles in the water?

The halt was understandable because the ageing AAVs should already have been replaced, but repeated replacement efforts had failed to remove them from service.

The viewer asks about the United States Marine Corps suspending AAV training in water after recent accidents. The decision is unsurprising because the vehicles had served for a very long time. They should have been replaced years earlier. Several successive replacement programs had failed to remove them from service, turning a training restriction into evidence of a wider procurement and readiness problem.