Light Armored Reconnaissance is hurting for leaders. Here’s what the Corps is doing about it. LAR unit leaders, who hail from the 0363-job field, are only staffed at 62 percent.

The backbone of the Marine Corps’ reconnaissance, the Light Armored Reconnaissance vehicle, is not a modern vehicle. Introduced into Marine Corps service in the early 1980s, the platform sports ...

U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Europe 19.1 (MRF-E) fire rounds from a Light Armored Vehicle during Exercise Northern Screen at Setermoen, Norway, Nov. 5, 2018. The exercise increases ...

Since the 1980s, the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) has supported Marine Air-Ground Task Force missions on the battlefield. While the LAV remains operationally effective, the life cycle of this ...

As the Corps continues on its Force Design 2030 modernization quest, it found a “requirement for littoral, multi-domain reconnaissance capabilities that our light armored reconnaissance (LAR ...

Ideally, the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle will have a number of capabilities that overlap with those of the Light Armored Vehicle, as well as some capabilities above and beyond that the LAR ...