Sgt. James Welsch is an Amphibious Assault Vehicle operator at Marine Corps Systems Command’s Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch, located aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Marine amtrackers—a nickname for amphibious vehicle operators and maintainers—assigned to AVTB serve as test directors and executors for future amphibious vehicle platforms being developed for the Corps.

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