Marines Look to Two New Ship Classes to Define Future of Amphibious Operations
By: Megan Eckstein
June 8, 2020 4:41 PM
The Navy and Marine Corps are looking to quickly overhaul their Cold War-era way of moving Marines around, with the services already agreeing on the basic requirements for a new Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) and in the early phases of looking at a separate small amphibious ship class.
LAW would be among the biggest change to the amphibious force in decades. Marines typically deploy as a 2,200-strong Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard a three-ship Amphibious Ready Group. These ARG/MEU teams deploy from the East Coast, West Coast or Japan and go on rotational deployments, sometimes staying together as a formation and sometimes disaggregating to cover more exercises with partner nations.
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