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Marine Corps Times on MSN2d
Top Marine’s deployment plans face familiar wrinkle: Inert Navy ships
The top Marine has a key objective for the Corps: getting Marine Expeditionary Units back on full deployment schedules. But ...
Military.com6y
Tarawa/Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship
USMC Armament: 2x RAM launchers; 2x NATO Sea Sparrow launchers; 3x 20mm Phalanx CIWS mounts; 4x .50 cal. machine guns; 4x 25 mm Mk 38 machine guns (LHD 5-8 have three 25 mm Mk 38 machine guns ...
USNI News3d
Troubled Amphib Readiness Prompting Navy to Rethink Maintenance Plan
A new pilot program aimed at improving Navy amphibious ship readiness will kick off this year in shipyards on both the east ...
National Interest on MSN2mon
The Marine Corps Is Adjusting Its Future F-35 Lightning II Acquisition
Given these factors, the USMC is now betting on the F-35C. Yet, its 280 F-35Bs will still be enough for its role on the ...
USNI24d
U.S. Marines to Stage Equipment at Subic Bay Under New Prepositioning Plan
USS Wasp (LHD-1) makes a port visit to Subic Bay ... an American military presence is set to return to Subic Bay under a new Marine Corps prepositioning program that will see the service stage ...
Marine Link7d
Navy's Newest Amphibious Assault Ship Commissioned At Ingalls
The U.S. Navy's newest Wasp Class multipurpose amphibious assault ship was commissioned USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) during ceremonies October 16, 1993 at Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in ...
The Westside Gazette3d
Fort Lauderdale native serving aboard USS Iwo Jima checks the ship’s bearing
Quartermaster 3rd Class Shamari Roberts from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS ...