Marines want to swarm enemy defenses with hundreds of small boats
Hope Hodge Seck Military.com Dec. 15, 06:12 PM
Move over, 355-ship Navy.
The Marine Corps is working to build up its own sizable fleet of boats as it postures itself for future combat in shallow coastal waters and dispersed across large stretches of land and water.
Maj. Gen. David Coffman, the Navy’s director of expeditionary warfare, said the service wants to find new ways to put conventional forces on small watercraft for operations ranging from raids to insertions and river operations.
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