1.   Avondale manufactures amphibious assault vehicles and other military ships.

2.   Avondale, based in Avondale, La., manufactures amphibious assault vehicles and other military ships.

3.   Imagine you are in your sport utility urban assault vehicle, heading to work, when a new and unknown song on the radio tickles your fancy.

4.   Instead of using only helicopters, as in Afghanistan, the Marines in this exercise also used more traditional amphibious assault vehicles.

5.   Picture the brain of a high school sophomore in the body of a military assault vehicle, and you have Tiny Tank.

6.   The Falls Church, Virginia-based company is the only U.S. tankmaker, and is building a new Marine Corps armored assault vehicle.

7.   The safest is probably the Hummer, the civilian version of the military utility vehicle and the ultimate urban assault vehicle.

8.   They also practice shooting and flying, keep their amphibious assault vehicles tip-top and prepare for short-notice launches.

9.   Abrams tanks thundered down the hillsides, Apache helicopters swooped down firing missiles, and Bradley assault vehicles blasted targets Thursday, sending columns of smoke into the air.

10.   Abrams tanks thundered down the hillsides, Apache helicopters swooped down firing missiles, and Bradley assault vehicles blasted targets, sending columns of smoke into the air.