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It's a pity but its been inevitable for some years now. The first step was the merging of the US Navy and US Army high-speed transport ships to give the JHSV that became the EPF. It was the same argument; it makes little sense for the Army and the Navy to be maintaining parallel logistics...

These days, things have calmed down a lot (on the surface at least). There was a major crack-down on shipboard pranks and so on starting in 2015 and Marine Corps fun and games came to an apparent halt. Another thing is that the old amphibs and so on are long gone; the modern ships all have...

Very interesting; thank you for posting that. The ships look very similar to the Netherlands Sigma class or the smaller variants of the French Gowind class but that may not mean too much. I couldn't find any reference to a production license and given the same specification, two competent...

I don't think there is any serious problem with aid supplies in the US; there might be in small localized areas where a single group holds sway but they'd be very much the exception. However, there's a lot of places in the world where the local authorities seize aid supplies and use them for...

Exactly!! Very well said!! Another advantage with amphibs is we can use the LCACs to take aid supplies to where they are needed instead of allowing the local government to do the distribution with all the favoritism and corruption that entails. Its amazing how honest said government officials...