By Geoff Fein The Navy and Marine Corps have spent the past year working to better define the requirement for sea base operations, looking at platform needs and how best to move warfighters and their equipment from ship to shore, a Marine Corps official said. The cornerstone of the sea basing effort is the Navy's Maritime Preposition Force Future or MPF(F). "We learned a lot in the last year in developing the requirement," Maj. Gen. Thomas Benes, director, Expeditionary Warfare,…
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