Yes its the only hovercraft that was still in the US when the amphibs with the Marines sailed to Kenya - basically the Marine Regiment was put together using dribs and drabs and anything they had left - so its more of a Frankenstein monster of a Marine Amphib Unit - with equipment and helos and ships that were all that they could find - in most cases ones that had been used for training and thus were far from "new issue"
If you look you can see several units are like that - i.e. they got whatever was available - thats how the M48A5 tanks showed up in Kenya - they were being prepared to ship to Turkey and instead they got grabbed and sent to Kenya
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