[DoodleDawg]

Our questions include asking how the Army now plans to respond to military and humanitarian aid in remote and austere locations, where ports and harbor infrastructure do not exist?

The Navy?

[wally_bert]

So much for a sequel to The Wackiest Ship In The Army.

[G Larry]

Wanted: Cheap boat with good motor...

[Cuttnhorse]

When I was on Swift Boats in Nam, 1965-66, I was amazed at how many water craft the Army had.
More than once we had to go on a search for some poor sergeant, wandering around totally lost, or as one boat ‘commander’ told us when we found him, “I don’t navigates at night”.

[dpetty121263]

Next War they will have no need for boats or water craft..

[Paal Gulli]

USC Title 10 requires the Army to maintain a fleet of organic watercraft (and aircraft) necessary to perform its mission.

In 2014, the Army had 118 watercraft. They're selling off their existing landing craft because they're old and worn-out and designed for a different era. In 2017 they let a contract for 36 new landing craft that will be a better complement to the new, heavier, armor-laden vehicles. Behemoths like the 74-ton M1 tank aside, the batteries the Army takes to war now weigh more than the small arms ammunition did in WWII.

[Candor7]

For sale: surplus 26 foot Zodiacs , (olive drab, LMG side and bow mounts.

Buy 6 for $600.00!

[puppypusher]

I guess the Army is not planning on any seaborne invasions.Will the Army leadership ever learn?

[reed13k]

Assumption for me here is that this is basically for freshwater riverine/lake use inland. I’m sure that they have other newer capabilities that they use instead of this stuff.

I know in Vietnam the Navy had riverine patrols they utilized. Great book about it by Cutler called Brown Water, Black Berets.

Cutler gave some outstanding speeches while teaching at USNA when I was a mid.

[ops33]

Wonder if this means they will close Fort Story?