The top Marine has a key objective for the Corps: getting Marine Expeditionary Units back on full deployment schedules. But ...

USMC Armament: 2x RAM launchers; 2x NATO Sea Sparrow launchers; 3x 20mm Phalanx CIWS mounts; 4x .50 cal. machine guns; 4x 25 mm Mk 38 machine guns (LHD 5-8 have three 25 mm Mk 38 machine guns ...

USS Wasp (LHD-1) makes a port visit to Subic Bay ... an American military presence is set to return to Subic Bay under a new Marine Corps prepositioning program that will see the service stage ...

The LHDs can embark and support all elements of a USMC MEU of 2,000 marines ... "US Navy Wasp-class LHD USS Bataan to enter two-year refit" was originally created and published by Naval Technology ...

A new pilot program aimed at improving Navy amphibious ship readiness will kick off this year in shipyards on both the east ...

The U.S. Navy's newest Wasp Class multipurpose amphibious assault ship was commissioned USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) during ceremonies October 16, 1993 at Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in ...

Quartermaster 3rd Class Shamari Roberts from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS ...