United States Marine Corps/Related Articles: Difference between revisions

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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]

F-18 Hornet [r]: Add brief definition or description
F-35B Lightning II [r]: Add brief definition or description
V-22 Osprey [r]: Military tilt-rotor aircraft capable of vertical takeoff as a rotary-wing helicopter, but faster horizontal flight using after converting its rotary-wing helicopter blades to propeller blades on a fixed-wing. ^[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

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 ==Subtopics==
-{{r|Amphibious Ready Group}}
+{{r|Commandant of the Marine Corps}}
-{{r|Amphibious Assault Ship}}
+{{r|Commandant of the Marine Corps Official Reading List}}
+===Equipment===
+====Aviation====
 {{r|AH-1 Cobra}}
-{{r|Assault Amphibious Vehicle}}
 {{r|AV-8 Harrier II}}
 {{r|CH-46}}
 {{r|CH-53}}
-{{r|Commandant of the Marine Corps}}
-{{r|Commandant of the Marine Corps Official Reading List}}
 {{r|F-18 Hornet}}
 {{r|F-35B Lightning II}}
-{{r|Force Reconnaissance}}
+{{r|V-22 Osprey}}
+====Amphibious warfare====
+{{r|Assault Amphibious Vehicle}}
+{{r|Amphibious Ready Group}}
+{{r|Amphibious Assault Ship}}
+{{r|Combat loading}}
 {{r|Landing Platform Dock}}
 {{r|Landing Platform Helicopter}}
 {{r|Light Armored Vehicle-25}}
+{{r|Landing craft}}
+{{r|Landing craft air cushion}}
+====Weapons====
+{{r|M198 howitzer}}
+{{r|M777 howitzer}}
+====Organizations and doctrine====
+{{r|Force Reconnaissance}}
+{{r|Vertical envelopment}}
 {{r|Marine Air-Ground Task Force}}
-{{r|Marine Corps War Memorial}}
 {{r|Marine Special Operations Command}}
-{{r|Landing craft}}
-{{r|Landing craft air cushion}}
+====History====
 {{r|Tun Tavern}}
-{{r|V-22 Osprey}}
+{{r|Marine Corps War Memorial}}
-{{r|Vertical envelopment}}
 ==Other related topics==