Light Armored Reconnaissance Marine

“Operate the LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicle as part of an elite fast-moving reconnaissance and security force. You'll be infantry, intelligence collector, and vehicle crewman all at once — the most versatile warfighter in the Marine Corps.”

LAR Marines exist in a permanent identity crisis between being too vehicle-heavy for real recon and too light for real armor, which means they get attached to everyone and belong to no one. The LAV-25 is a magnificent machine that was designed in the early 1980s and has been continuously upgraded in the way your uncle continuously upgrades a 1987 pickup truck — it runs, mostly. You will spend extraordinary amounts of time performing maintenance on a vehicle that has approximately ten thousand components, each with its own TM and each capable of failing in the field. The "every Marine a rifleman" ethos hits LAR Marines especially hard because you have to be good at infantry AND vehicle operations AND communications AND navigation, and the Corps funds your training accordingly, which is to say insufficiently. But when it works, when you're rolling fast and light through terrain no tank can touch, you understand why people choose this.