20 bucks says most of them end up in some kind of lay up because the Navy doesn’t really want them. The article doesn’t talk about personnel. Will the Army people switch branches in a Green to Blue program? (don’t know if they still have it but the Navy had a Blue to Green program when I retired a few years ago.)
The Army had some nice looking medium size landing craft at Little Creek when I was there. Smaller than a LST but much larger than a LCM. I don’t remember the designation. When I was in Japan they had the high speed transport based that was based on an Australian ferry design making runs between Okinawa, Korea and mainland Japan.
I remember when masses of Navy people were transferred to the Army back in the late 60’s and 70’s. It halted our career progression. For some strange reason Department of the Army thought a Navy 1st Class who walked around holding a coffee cup would make a good officer and skipper a ship or boat.
I suppose the Army people will be reclassified into other fields or denied reenlistment. It won’t be the first time.