Assault Craft Unit 5

[4] The Supply department is given an annual budget of 18 million dollars, and is required to catalog warehouses full uniforms, machine parts and equipment.

[6] The purpose of the LCACs are to "carry heavy vehicles and cargo" onto beaches at high speeds and over longer distances.

The LCACs are currently undergoing a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP), which will be completed on all 72 craft by 2020.

[7] In 1992, ACU-5 deployed 3 LCACs to Japan and created a permanent military presence called detachment Westpac Alfa, which in 2012 became its own command, Naval Beach Unit 7, with 7 LCACS permanently stationed in Sasebo, Japan.

In 2007, an LCAC was used to transport Los Angeles County Fire apparatus to Catalina Island to fight a wildfire.

Assault Craft Unit Five (ACU-5), prepares to unload a howitzer artillery gun along the Camp Pendleton coast