Amphibious Assault Ships are the U.S ... built for Makin Island will also be used aboard the future USS America (LHA 6), the first ship in the LHA. LHA 6 was placed under contract in June 2007 ...

The US Navy (USN) is changing the way it conducts the planning and execution for big-deck amphibious ship maintenance ...

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

There are only two of these, the USS Blue Ridge and USS Mount Whitney. The amphibious assault ships, whether Tarawa, Wasp, or America-class, look like smaller aircraft carriers with flight decks ...