
This week the Marine Corps’ top official confirmed he added another amphibious ship to his fiscal year 2024 unfunded priorities list because the Navy budget plans to decommission three older amphibious ships without concrete plans to procure more over the next five years. The Navy’s FY ‘24 budget request proposes the early decommissioning of three Whidbey Island/Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ships: USS Germantown (LSD-42), Gunston Hall (LSD-44), and Tortuga (LSD-46). However, at the same time, the budget included no plans…