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Parent topics
- Amphibious warfare [r]: The set of techniques, equipment, specialized units, and methods of training needed to move troops across water, and deliver them to land, ready for immediate combat. [e]
- 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]
Subtopics
- Amphibious Ready Group [r]: A group of amphibious warfare ships that can carry a U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) or U.K. Royal Marine Commando [e]
- AH-1 Cobra [r]: The first purpose-built U.S. attack helicopter, introduced by the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War; the U.S. Marine Corps still operates a much-modified version [e]
- Assault Amphibious Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AV-8 Harrier II [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CH-46 [r]: An aging medium helicopter that has been the main troop transport helicopter for the U.S. Marine Corps and a utility transport for the U.S. Navy [e]
- CH-53 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Commandant of the Marine Corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Commandant of the Marine Corps Official Reading List [r]: Add brief definition or description
- F-35B Lightning II [r]: Short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, to be used on small carriers (i.e., without catapults and from minimal forward airfields [e]
- Force Reconnaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Light Armored Vehicle-25 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marine Air-Ground Task Force [r]: The basic structure of United States Marine Corps combined arms, task-organized units [e]
- Marine Corps War Memorial [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marine Special Operations Command [r]: The Marine component of United States Special Operations Command, this unit absorbed the existing Marine special reconnaissance "Force Recon" companies (but not battalions), but also added a support organization, school, and a system of developing training teams for foreign internal defense and other special operations missions [e]
- 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
- Tun Tavern [r]: Add brief definition or description
- V-22 Osprey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vertical envelopment [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Department of the Navy (United States) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Drill instructor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Foreign internal defense [r]: The United States military doctrine for counterinsurgency [e]
- Forward air controller [r]: An individual or team, knowledgeable in both ground and air warfare, who coordinates close air support for a ground unit to which they are responsible [e]
- Forward observer [r]: An individual or team, specializing in artillery, who accompanies ground troops and directs indirect fire artillery in support of those ground troops [e]
- Infantry Fighting Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e]
- Royal Marines (U.K.) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Secretary of the Navy (U.S.) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
