United States Marine Corps/Related Articles

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Amphibious warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
Naval infantry [r]: Personnel assigned to naval ships, who are qualified to engage in combat using individual weapons, against enemy personnel on land or on ships that were boarded ^[e]
Department of the Navy (United States) [r]: A civilian component of the U.S. Department of Defense, responsible for management of Naval and Marine policy and procurement ^[e]
- Secretary of the Navy (U.S.) [r]: U.S. civilian official, of Assistant Secretary of Defense rank, who heads the U.S. Department of the Navy and to whom the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps report ^[e]

Assault Amphibious Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
Amphibious Ready Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
Amphibious Assault Ship [r]: Add brief definition or description
Combat loading [r]: A method of loading cargo into ships that will carry it to amphibious landing sites, such that can be unloaded in a manner optimized to meet the operational needs of combat rather than maximizing the utilization of the ship's cargo space ^[e]
Landing Platform Dock [r]: (LPD) Large amphibious warfare ships with both an internal dock that can be flooded to allow smaller landing craft to swim out, as well as a flight deck for helicopters and STOVL aircraft ^[e]
Landing Platform Helicopter [r]: A medium-sized amphibious warfare ship that primarily uses helicopters to land troops; it does not have the well deck of a larger Landing Helicopter Dock ^[e]
Light Armored Vehicle-25 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Landing craft [r]: A boat or other self-propelled watercraft, carried aboard a ship, intended for amphibious warfare or similar operations where landings at a prepared seaport are not practical. Such a craft may discharge troops or equipment on the beach, or may be capable of independent movement on land. ^[e]
Landing craft air cushion [r]: Add brief definition or description