Marines still have big plans for seabasing ships as 2 head for mothballs
By Hope Hodge Seck
Jun 20, 12:58 PM
A sweeping slate of proposed ship retirements that would take nine littoral combat ships offline also would end the career of two unconventional seabasing vessels that have less than a decade in service.
But Marine Corps seabasing is far from a failed concept, current and former Marine officials said, and similar ships remaining in service are poised to take on new missions ― including support of unmanned surface vessels ― in the near future.
The recently released fiscal 2023 defense budget proposal calls for the retirement of both the Navy’s expeditionary transfer docks: the Montford Point and John Glenn. Initially called mobile landing platforms, these ships were based on civilian Alaska-class oil tankers and designed to fill a gap left by a scarcity of pricey amphibious warships.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2022/06/20/marines-still-have-big-plans-for-seabasing-ships-as-2-head-for-mothballs/
