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A Landing Craft Air Cushion from Assault Craft Unit Five, lands ashore to drop equipment and personnel in support of the Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX) for Exercise Iron Fist 2016 aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 26, 2016. This year’s PHIBLEX was a bilateral, ship-to-shore, amphibious assault, between the U.S. Marine Corps and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, utilizing AAVs to seize objectives via beachhead.